Well folks, I found a good boot disk afterall and was able to get around the
console error to mount the hd and a few of the important filesystem
partitions.(I had several ext2 partitions on this puppy). Found some
partitions totally trashed, even fsck couldn't help. Which again makes me
wonder if it is better to go with one or at most just a couple of partitions
on a non-production single-user ws, or, chop the hell out the hard drive to
at least hedge the bets of recovery if a partition or two goes south. Ah
well, whatever the case, so much for PM5 and Linux, I'm taking my medicine
like a geek... er, man... and I will be backing up always in the future!
(yeah, uh-huh ;-) Thanks for the thoughts... end of saga... sniff...
Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Zamenski" ">fzamenski@voyager.net>
To: "ale" ">ale@ale.org>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] RH 5.1 boot disk 'unable to open initial console' error
(speaking of PM5)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob's ALE Mail" ">transam@cavu.com>
> To: ">fzamenski@voyager.net>
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 1:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [ale] RH 5.1 boot disk 'unable to open initial console' error
> (speaking of PM5)
>
>
> > Are you possibly missing files in /dev?
> >
>
> Well, if you mean files on hda /dev, possibly so. But of course without
> getting a fd0 boot prompt from which to mount any hda filesystems, I can't
> know. In retropsect, it's also possible I may be missing something on the
RH
> 5.1 diskette, too, but I'm not familiar with this kind of error so I'm not
> sure about that either. I could look at the diskette on another Linux box,
> but what do I need to look for? Thanks.
>
>
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