It is asking for a location of a valid installation tree: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-rescuemode-boot.html Definition of installation tree: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-begininstall-net.html Cheers, Tammy On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 11:22:34PM -0700, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to rescue a Red Hat 7.3 laptop using a Red Hat 9 CD#1. > Should this be possible? > > If I try to boot into rescue mode using CD#1 on a PCMCIA CDROM the boot > process gets as far as allowing language selection and then asks for the > location of the rescue image. If I select CDROM then it fails to find > the device. > > If I try to pass the flag `cdrom=hdc' to the kernel then the boot > process shows that it fails to find the CDROM. I note from an earlier > email that Arjan van der Ven has a test kernel to fix PCMCIA problems > including this CDROM not found problem. > > Thanks for any suggestions. > Oisin Feeley > > (ps I sent a version of this mail many hours ago and it has not shown up > on the list yet. I'm assuming that it's disappeared into the aether and > I apologize if this ends up being a repeat posting) > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list --
