Recovering from errors

[jludwig]

On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 13:56, duncan brown wrote:
> one thing i noticed was your use of vga=0x31a, there is an easier method,
> use the decimal equivalent.
> 
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> 
> jludwig said:
> > I have seen many really good hacks and many who love to play with this
> > Release and Linux in general. What I haven't seen is any real advice on
> > preemptive measures for error recovery. What do you do if you need only
> > one or two files to fix the system but you can't get them because your
> > system is down???
> > One piece of advice I will give is this. If you have the hard drive
> > space, or even a old hard drive lying around, make yourself a backup
> > system. As seen below I have one (From my grub.conf) because I do screw
> > things.
> > title Fedora Core (2.4.24-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma)
> >         root (hd0,1)
> >         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.24-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma ro root=LABEL=/1
> > hdc=ide-scsi vga=0x31a
> >         initrd /initrd-2.4.24-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma.img
> > title Fedora Core (2.6.4)
> >         root (hd0,1)
> >         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.4 ro root=LABEL=/1 vga=0x31a
> >         initrd /initrd-2.6.4.img
> > title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2174.nptl)
> >         root (hd0,1)
> >         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl ro root=LABEL=/1 hdc=ide-scsi
> > vga=0x31a
> >         initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.img
> > title EMG Boot
> >         root (hd0,0)
> >         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=/dev/hda3 /hdc=ide-scsi
> > vga=0x31a
> >         initrd /initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img
> >
> > --
> > jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
> >
> >
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> 
> -+(duncan brown
> -+(duncanbrown at linuxadvocate.net
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> evidence of the fact.
>                 -- George Eliot
I suppose there is but -- for a one shot entry -- its not bad.
Also, under grub you can have grub scan for available video modes. Your
kernel must support this -- the generic kernel does. At the grub bootup 
screen hit c then run the command vbeprobe for available options for
your system.
 -- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>