[plug] problem booting

[David & Lisa Buddrige]

ok, I got my main files off the machine (thank goodness I use emacs and not
word - 3 years of word-processing fit onto a single floppy 8-)  )

It turned out, I just needed to do the modprobe floppy, and after that I was
able to mount the floppy using

mount -t vfat /dev/floppy/fd1440 /floppy -r

next is to mount /proc and see what's going on.......


-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au>
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Date: Thursday, 29 January 2004 8:37
Subject: Re: [plug] problem booting


>David & Lisa Buddrige wrote:
>
>| init-2.05b# ls /etc
>| ls: /etc: Input/output error
>
>Ouch.  That's bad. :(  Perhaps you could try fsck'ing your partition.
>(After you've backed up anything important!)
>
>| Perhaps I'll just try and get off some critical files incase I need to do
>| drastic surgery....
>
>Good idea...  Incidentally, this is why having a separate partition for
>/home can be handy.
>
>| So I think to myself... ugh... not good.... where's my devices gone?   Is
>| this a Mandrake thing?  In RH /dev/fd0 was always the floppy but there
does
>| not seem to be such a thing in my /dev
>
>Mandrake uses devfs, so you'll need to start devfsd before you can see
>your "normal" device names.  That's not likely to work if you don't have
>/etc.  Alternatives include booking with "devfs=nomount" or using
>/dev/floppy/floppy0  (I think... the machine I'm sending this message
>from uses devfs but has no floppy drive so I can't confirm this.  It'd
>be consistent with the other devfs names I see though.)  You might also
>find that the floppy driver isn't built into the kernel and needs to be
>loaded with "modprobe floppy".
>
>Cameron.
>
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