Re: hm, how to recover from a fscked-up device.hints?

From: Bernd Walter <ticso_at_cicely12.cicely.de>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:32:27 +0200
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 03:00:55PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 12:44:25PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:36:42PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > I just created myself an interesting challenge:
> > > 
> > >  - I basically replaced my /boot/device.hints with a nonsensical one (don't
> > >    ask), it is not a device.hints file at all.
> > > 
> > > How does one recover from that?  Booting kernel.old does not fix it for
> > > obvious reasons..
> > 
> > Boot from CDROM?
> 
> Yeah.. I thought of that one, but I was wondering about something 
> more clever. Probably does not exist  :)

Cut & Paste it on serial console - or as other said type the minimum
required for single user mode by hand.

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Received on Fri Jul 16 2004 - 14:33:25 UTC

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