Andrew Farris wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
5. Booting an F8 rescue CD. I forgot the pci=nomsi,nommconf trick
(which also works for Knoppix 5.1 on the same hardware), but it
didn't stop there, when last I looked it was taking ages running
/sbin/loader.
The f8 rescue CD boots, but is unable to help. When I try to chroot
into the installed image, I get "Exec format error."
rpm from the rescue CD cannot install rpms on the f9alpha system.
Sorry I meant from the rawhide rescue image, but it appears not to be
That's okay, I was replying to myself, before I saw your earlier reply.
anywhere right now (I guess images haven't built in awhile). The F9
Alpha may let you get into a rescue environment though.
I don't have any F9Plpha boot media, and I've not located any.
I can download this:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.25/0.65.rc2.git7.fc9/x86_64/
and unpack it, and create a bootable CD (I have a script someplace that
puts grub on a CD, adding a kernel might not be difficult) or usb disk
(I suppose I can get it from the BIOS and hence from existing grub).
I'll work on that until someone has a better idea.
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