-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christopher and all, On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 07:57:43PM -0500, Christopher Moore wrote: > First, there is a grub rescue floppy disk which should help you fix your grub problems. You might need sighted assistance to run it. I forget the name > , but you can google it. Yes, it's called supergrub, and the need for sighted assistance is why I haven't tried it, at least not yet. > > Second, in the old days, we were able to copy the vmlinuz image to a floppy with dd and boot from it. > Yes, however, I seem to recall reading somewhere that new kernels don't support doing that anymore. Even if they do, the initrd won't fit on a floppy, and without the initrd, there's nothing that I could really do. > Third, when grub doesn't boot successfully, you can get into a shell prompt. This allows you to use many of the normal shell commands to help determine > what went wrong. In particular, you can mount devices and move/copy files. Again, you won't have speech. Yes, I've tried getting into that, like I described in my first post, but without sighted help. > > Finally, save yourself from further headaches and trash the machine. Yes, that thought has crossed my mind too, but even though software speech is all fine and good, there's still some part of me that refuses to let go of my doubletalk pc as long as it still works, and as long as I have a machine to use it in. Some might think this silly, I know. Thanks for all your ideas everyone, they're much appreciated. I have an old version of systemrescuecd lying around here somewhere, which I seem to recall works on this system. If that's correct, then hopefully it won't be too old for me to be able to chroot into the system on the hd with it. If it is, then I thought I could use it to upload the kernel, and initrd to another machine on my lan, and use isolinux to boot with them. I'll post back with whatever finally happens for the record, but since this machine isn't a priority, and since getting it bootable again looks like a somewhat complex project, that may not be soon. Thanks again. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk1UnvsACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyBPnQCgpK+pDwKxar/eIA5fxAuxDuwI Iy4AoIVp7RpKHjbsIO8gQvPXq6IgSpqP =O0DS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
