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by **gabe johnso** » Fri, 04 Apr 1997 04:00:00

I have quite a few bad blocks on my hard drive, I don't know
how to fix it, and it's driving me crazy! I have a complete backup,
so reformatting the drive is not a concern, it's just that i don't know
how to do that without going through one of those spiffy install deals,
with the prepackaged kernel and ramdisks and blah blah. All I need to
know is how to boot from a floppy without having to mount the hard
drive. I've tried a number of things, including this:
rdev vmlinuz /dev/fd0
cp vmlunuz /dev/fd0
(at which point it asks me if i want to overwrite the floppy, to which
I say yes)
this floppy boots, but gives me something like this(not exactly):
AX: C003
BX: D00A
CX: 90AE
DX: 4242
you get the point. it just prints that out over and over. I guess the
problem stems from the fact that i'm fuzzy on the whole
mounting-the-root-filesystem and what exactly that means. Once I do
mount from the floppy, mke2fs is still living on the HD. So i still
have problems with that one, too...
If anybody has any remedies to this, i'd really really appreciate any
help.

-gabe

ps
email is good

by **Sylvain Robitail** » Mon, 07 Apr 1997 05:00:00

>I have quite a few bad blocks on my hard drive, I don't know
>how to fix it, and it's driving me crazy! I have a complete backup,
>so reformatting the drive is not a concern, it's just that i don't know
>how to do that without going through one of those spiffy install deals,
>with the prepackaged kernel and ramdisks and blah blah. All I need to
>know is how to boot from a floppy without having to mount the hard
>drive. I've tried a number of things, including this:
>rdev vmlinuz /dev/fd0
>cp vmlunuz /dev/fd0
>(at which point it asks me if i want to overwrite the floppy, to which
>I say yes)
>this floppy boots, but gives me something like this(not exactly):
>AX: C003
>BX: D00A
>CX: 90AE
>DX: 4242
>you get the point. it just prints that out over and over. I guess the
>problem stems from the fact that i'm fuzzy on the whole
>mounting-the-root-filesystem and what exactly that means. Once I do
>mount from the floppy, mke2fs is still living on the HD. So i still
>have problems with that one, too...
>If anybody has any remedies to this, i'd really really appreciate any
>help.

I keep my install floppies around for just this sort of thing. Usually I don't
need the most current kernel if I'm booting from the floppy, (which is in
emergencies only), so I don't worry too much about which kernel the floppy
has, just that it uses a root floppy as well, which is already set up, and
contains some handy system administration tools as it is.

So my suggestion is to use your installation floppies, with a root floppy,
then you can use the available tools to manipulate your hard disk.

Hope that helps...

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