On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote: > This doesn't help me in my case as I cannot even get the box up without a > recovery cd ... wish I could ... any other suggestions? Or is this something > I can do while booted from the rescue or survival cd ?? You can boot from the first install CD typing linux rescue at the boot prompt. Then you should be able to run the rpm commands described by adding the --root /mnt/sysimage option. Something else which might conceivably work is booting the main system adding the nosysinfo option to the boot flags. Michael Young