Re: tlug: Re: Lilo hosed

[Rex Walters <rex@example.com>]

>>>>> Joe Marchak writes:  (on 02 Nov 98)

> I'm sure someone else has a simpler method, but what I usually do is boot
> from a rescue disk

And for anyone lacking a rescue disk, I strongly, heartily,
enthusiastically recommend Tom's Root/Boot Disk
"http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html".  I can't imagine a better rescue
disk.

Simply amazing what all it contains.  IMHO this is one of the best
examples of Linux superiority to Windows (damaging a windows filesystem
to the point that it won't boot usually means re-installing).  The idea
of a single floppy windows disk is ludicrous.

>From the FAQ:

 Stuff included- modules, manpages, links, scripts, binaries, kernel:

 AHA152X AHA1542 AIC7XXX BUSLOGIC CVF EATA EXT2 FAT FAT32 FD
 FUTURE_DOMAIN IDE IDECD IDEFLOPPY IDETAPE IDEPCMCIA ISO9660 JOLIET LOOP
 MATH_EMULATION MINIX MSDOS NCR53C8XX NFS PROC QLOGIC_FAS RAM SD SEAGATE
 SR ST TR VFAT 2.0.35 3c503 3c509 3c589_cs 3c59x 8390 aha152x_cs ash awk
 badblocks bdflush bzip2 cardmgr cat ce ce.help chattr chgrp chmod chown
 chroot clear cmp cp cpio cut date dd ddate debugfs df dirname dmesg
 dmsdos ds du dumpe2fs dutil e2fsck echo eepro eexpress egrep elvis
 emacs extend false fdflush fdformat fdisk filesize find fmt fsck.ext2
 fsck.msdos fstab grep gzip halt head hostname i82365 ibmtr ifconfig
 ifport ile init inittab insmod kill killall5 ksyms length less
 libc.so.5.4.13 lilo lilo.conf ln losetup loadkeys login ls lsattr mawk
 memtest mingetty miterm mkdir mkdosfs mke2fs mkfifo mknod mkfs.minix
 mklost+found mknod mkswap mnsed more mount mt mv ne nc nmclan_cs ntfs
 pcmcia pcmcia_core pcnet_cs ping plip ppa printf ps pwd qlogic_cs
 reboot regex reset rm rmdir rmmod route rsh rshd script scsi_info sed
 serial serial_cs sh slattach sleep slip smc-ultra snarf sort stty
 swapoff swapon sync tail tcic tee telnet test touch tulip tune2fs
 umount update vi vi.help wc wd    

All on a *SINGLE* floppy (that is quite customizable).  If you can't
rescue yourself with this, you are in serious trouble.

Regards,
-- 
Rex
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