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On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:36:42PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> I just created myself an interesting challenge:
>=20
>  - I basically replaced my /boot/device.hints with a nonsensical one (don=
't
>    ask), it is not a device.hints file at all.
>=20
> How does one recover from that?  Booting kernel.old does not fix it for
> obvious reasons..

Boot from CDROM?

Ceri

--=20
It is not tinfoil, it is my new skin.  I am a robot.

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