Very Computer

by **Mark Bak** » Thu, 07 Mar 1996 04:00:00

Because I run Win95, I boot into Linux with a floppy. This floppy
contains only the kernel.

The power went out in my home recently, and now Linux won't boot.
It hangs somewhere in rc.d after complaining about some filesystem
troubles. So I thought I'd just boot single-user and fix it up.
The problem is that the floppy doesn't give me the 'boot:'
prompt, and rebooting from my linux partition (after making that
partition active) gives me 'LIL-'.

Any ideas on how I can get back in?

Thanks in davance.

MB

by **Aihua** » Tue, 12 Mar 1996 04:00:00

>Because I run Win95, I boot into Linux with a floppy. This floppy
>contains only the kernel.
>The power went out in my home recently, and now Linux won't boot.
>It hangs somewhere in rc.d after complaining about some filesystem
>troubles. So I thought I'd just boot single-user and fix it up.
>The problem is that the floppy doesn't give me the 'boot:'
>prompt, and rebooting from my linux partition (after making that
>partition active) gives me 'LIL-'.
>Any ideas on how I can get back in?

I had the same problem before.
The problem is it can not mount the filesystem on the /.
The filesystem is not damaged.
So I just install and configure the kernel by boot and root disk.
This may be not the best way. At least you can repair it.

What my question here is:
I have X window, but my mouse pointer is always one character left
of the actual position.

Can anybody help me?

aihuawu

by **aihu..** » Tue, 12 Mar 1996 04:00:00

Subject: Re: Getting the 'boot:' prompt
Date: 11 Mar 96 21:07:49 GMT

>Because I run Win95, I boot into Linux with a floppy. This floppy
>contains only the kernel.
>The power went out in my home recently, and now Linux won't boot.
>It hangs somewhere in rc.d after complaining about some filesystem
>troubles. So I thought I'd just boot single-user and fix it up.
>The problem is that the floppy doesn't give me the 'boot:'
>prompt, and rebooting from my linux partition (after making that
>partition active) gives me 'LIL-'.
>Any ideas on how I can get back in?

I had the same problem before.
The problem is it can not mount the filesystem on the /.
The filesystem is not damaged.
So I just install and configure the kernel by boot and root disk.
This may be not the best way. At least you can repair it.

What my question here is:
I have X window, but my mouse pointer is always one character left
of the actual position.

Can anybody help me?

aihuawu