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From: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
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To: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
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Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.5-1.358 and Fedora
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Jesper Juhl wrote:
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> While I lack specific Fedora knowledge and thus can't provide exact 
> details for it I'd say it should still be pretty simple to recover. On 
> Slackware I'd simply boot a kernel from the install CD and tell it to 
> mount the installed system on my HD, then you'll have a running system and 
> can easily clean out the broken modules etc and install the original ones 
> from your CD and be right back where you started in 5 min. Surely 
> something similar is possible with Fedora, reinstalling from scratch (as 
> he said he did) seems like massive overkill to me.
> 
> 
If all you're after is a resuce cd, you can use the fedora CD's for that 
by typing:
linux rescue
at the boot prompt.  Your root fs will be mounted under /mnt/sysimage, 
and you can go in from a shell, and clean up anything you like.

Neil
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