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Title: Fragged Disk, Opie Won't Boot
Post by: guitara on April 21, 2006, 03:39:40 pm

After freezing while starting xmms, the disk was corrupted, generating alot of nasty errors on boot.  After failing to start opie, it still gives me a shell, but I can't login. Are there any defaults for usernames or passwords? I flashed with hentges rom and opie. I'd like to see if fsck can rescue me out of this one, before just reflashing.. Thanks

Title: Fragged Disk, Opie Won't Boot
Post by: CoreDump on April 22, 2006, 01:17:23 am

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After freezing while starting xmms, the disk was corrupted, generating alot of nasty errors on boot.  After failing to start opie, it still gives me a shell, but I can't login. Are there any defaults for usernames or passwords? I flashed with hentges rom and opie. I'd like to see if fsck can rescue me out of this one, before just reflashing.. Thanks
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Username "root", no password. If that doesn't work, your system is dead

Title: Fragged Disk, Opie Won't Boot
Post by: Antikx on April 22, 2006, 02:12:20 am

Can altboot truly boot to a USB storage device through USB host that has a bootable OS on it? That could be a data-life-saver for some.

Title: Fragged Disk, Opie Won't Boot
Post by: CoreDump on April 22, 2006, 03:13:00 am

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Can altboot truly boot to a USB storage device through USB host that has a bootable OS on it? That could be a data-life-saver for some.
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With kernel 2.4 it can yes. For kernel 2.6 I'd have to work out the module depedencies first, but yeah, that's possible.

With altboot installed you can also boot into init=/bin/sh and manually repair a damaged system (or rescue files).

Title: Fragged Disk, Opie Won't Boot
Post by: guitara on April 22, 2006, 11:57:59 pm

Thanks... tried root, no password, and it didn't work. I guess nothing left to do but reflash then. Thanks for a great ROM, btw.. Works out nicely.. I think I may try to altboot with gpe this time as well

Title: Fragged Disk, Opie Won't Boot
Post by: Antikx on April 29, 2006, 12:32:47 am

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Can altboot truly boot to a USB storage device through USB host that has a bootable OS on it? That could be a data-life-saver for some.
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With kernel 2.4 it can yes. For kernel 2.6 I'd have to work out the module depedencies first, but yeah, that's possible.
With altboot installed you can also boot into init=/bin/sh and manually repair a damaged system (or rescue files).
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Very neat. Thanks for the info.
I've wondered under pdaXrom and now OZ... what is the proper way to run a file system check under OZ? Or is that necessary?