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Problem scope: I have a boot drive running Linux Red Hat Nash Version 4.2.1.8 . After loading the physical volumes the device hangs and never loads the first module of the Linux grub.

It appears that this file has lost/damaged in the init file.

Using a host computer(or bootable drive master) for this drive. Is there an easy way to mount and check the files/and substructure of this drive by mounting it in sdb so it will act like a standard tree/file in the shell.

I require the lines of the symbolic links and the mtab/fstab modifications. Only issue is I only want to modify these files in a temporary or need-to basis. A script/module for a ls -a directory tree structure for $sdb would be great.

thank you,

Hello akuhns,

you may boot your machine with a live-CD and the do a chroot into your system.
If your Linux is 32bit I'd recommend to use Slax. Otherwise there is a BW64 live-CD.
http://www.slax.org/
http://www.bluewhite64.com/live-dvd.html

Markus

Hi,

Welcome to LQ!

You can use any LiveCD to boot your system. Your install CD should allow you to open another terminal that you could use to create a mount point for the partition in question. Once mounted you could then do a 'chroot';

After you get to the login then from the cli (command line);

You should be able to modify or edit whatever is needed on this filesystem.

You can 'man commands' in the above example to get a full understanding of the commands and options.