Hi Rafael,
What I meant whether I would be doing something wrong if I changed the
option to readwrite. My linux ext2 is on /dev/hda6. I tried making a
bootdisk using mkbootdisk, but it said it cannot run the command since
filesystem is mounted read only.
Prasad
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rafael" <raffi@ark.linwin.com>
To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 11:25
Subject: Re: Using loadlin
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 10:48:13PM +0530, Prasad Chaturvedula wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > I have a dual boot machine with Linux & WIN98. Recently I added a
second
> > hard disk to my system. I also had to reinstall WIN98 because of a
> > virus problem. From then, I have been unable to boot into linux. One of
the
> > members of the list guided me to boot into linux with loadlin and a
kernel
> > image vmlinuz. But the file system is mounted read only since this is
> > specified in the linux.bat batch file used for this purpose. I am not
able
> > to do any useful work in Linux. Neither can i can i edit a file or
reinstall
> > lilo.
>
> Why don't you change bat file?
>
> > What should i do now to boot linux properly and how do I reinstall
> > lilo?
> > Thanks in advance for help.
>
> I'm not familiar with loadlin since I never use it but there is one thing
> you can try if you can't change bat file to boot in RW mode. After you
> bootup in read only mode, create bootable floppy disk with command
>
> dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k
>
> That should create bootable floppy disk with the original kernel on your
> system.
>
> Not knowing which is your Linux drive it's hard to say what else to do.
> I would run
>
> rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hdc
>
> assuming your linux is second master drive. After rebooting from floppy
> you should be able to get linux running as before. Then you login and fix
> lilo or better yet grub.
>
> > Prasad
> > Never let yesterday's disappointments overshadow tomorrow's dreams
>
> Good luck,
>
> --
> Rafael
>
>
>
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