Unable to boot after HD installForum: HD Install Topic: Unable to boot after HD install started by: drcrunch Posted by drcrunch on Jan. 14 2007,22:10
I have thin clients booting from Lan from a SUSE box. They have been working well. I have gotten the masquerading working and everybody is on line so I tried the HD install from the web, the install seemed to go OK but since then I cannot boot. The system gets to the point where it is autoconfiguring and "scanning for Harddisk partitions and creating etc/fstab" and hangs. I cannot boot from the HD either...grub never engages. Is there a way to initiate the boot and tell it not to look at the fixed drive? I have tried adding "nohd" on the chances that that was a legitimate boot option. Didn't work. At this point the unit is fubar. It has to boot from either HD or lan, it has no floppy or cdrom and cannot boot from USB. It does not show me a bash prompt at the failure point.The only other option I can see is to open up the boot image initrd and remark out the checking of the hadrdrives and then try to reformat on a new install via a local source. I would like to avoid that. Any ideas? Posted by drcrunch on Jan. 14 2007,22:30
Found the answer soon after the above post:Knoppix boot options (cheat codes) < http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes > add the nofstab option to the pxelinu.cfg file Now I will try to repair the damage. |