Re: [LUG] We got the CD burner working...

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> But only after completely backing up and reinstalling the entire system! :-(
>
> For some reason, even though we changed lilo.conf and fstab to reflect the 
> changes, swapping the IDE channels completely loused the system - it would 
> get as far as looking for the root partition which, for some unknown reason 
> it still thought was hdc6, and then kernel panic.  Swapping them back didn't 
> work either!

Odd !

> We managed to boot the rescue system from the Mandrake CD but as vi was the 
> only text editor available, and we hadn't got a chance in hell of working out 
> how to use it, we couldn't really change any config (although admittedly the 
> fstab looked fine anyway).  They really ought to design fool-proof rescue 
> disks; after all, it's far more likely to be a fool who's reduced to using 
> one!

Lets face it.. all that will happen is a better breed of fool will be 
made... "Oh.. you didn't tell me i had to put the recovery disk in to 
recover the system..." heh...

> We tried to reinstall Mandrake on the existing ext3 partition, but it told us 
> there were errors, it fscked it, then told us it couldn't fix it.

Ooohh... fsck.. thats can't be good..

> Anyway after backing practically all the data minus a few WAVs (on an 80Gb 
> drive!) onto CDs using windows, reformatting (with seperate / and /home 
> partitions this time), reinstalling, and restoring all of the data, we 
> finally are back to where we started - but with a working CD burner. 8-)
>
> Which was rather a lot of incovenience for such a small change, really!
Well you got it back up and working.. thats the main thing... but hell..

thats a nasty way about getting everything working again...

Never mind

Hope all goes well

Neil


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