[ale] Redhat 7.2 Rescue Mode

[Calvin Harrigan]

What happened to the system that caused you to have to boot in rescue mode to begin with?  The reason I'm asking is because from what you are telling us either your partition table is messed up or the partition is.

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From: Ryan Neily <ryan at neily.net>
To: ale at ale.org
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 09:45:33 -0500 (EST)
To:  <ale at ale.org>
Subject: [ale] Redhat 7.2 Rescue Mode


> 
> I am having problems with booting into the "linux rescue" mode on Redhat 
> Linux 7.2.  According to the documentation, when issuing this command at 
> the boot prompt when booting off the CD, it's supposed to "automagicly" 
> suppoed to find your linux partition, and mountit to /mnt/sysimage no 
> matter where it is (as long as you dont have a SCSI system).
> 
> Well, Needless to say this does NOT work.  My Linux partition is on
> /dev/hda2, and after the rescue script gives an error, it drops me to a
> command line, I still cat mount the partition.  Issuing "mount -t ext3
> /dev/hda2 /mnt/foo" does work for me, even after creating the /mnt/foo
> directory. I keep getting a "mount failed: invalid parameter" error
> message.  Anyone know what I am doing wrong?  This has got to be a bug of
> some sort, but after searching in bugzlla.redhat.com, I cant find anything
> referring to it.  Did "good ole" mount change in Redhat 7.2????
> 
> Ryan Neily
> ryan at neily.net
> 
> 
> 
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