[SLL] /etc overwritten; is there any hope?

[Jay Scherrer]

What does your grub.conf  look like?

Jay Scherrer

Dan Wilder wrote:
> You might try patching it back together by hand, using /etc
> from a similarly-configured RHEL-4 if you get stuck.  A rescue 
> boot like Damn Small Linux could be your friend in this endeavor,
> in the worst case.  
>
> Sounds like maybe it boots in non-X mode.  That's a long way 
> short of the worst case!
>
> What won't it do, aside from starting X?
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 05:28:04PM -0700, William Kreuter wrote:
>   
>> Looks like I really clobbered an RHEL-4 machine pretty
>> badly.  I was just finishing up its setup.  As almost
>> the last thing to do, I copied some trees from an
>> older RHEL-3 machine that the newer one is to replace
>> -- and witlessly I copied the /etc tree as well.
>>
>> This has smashed up the RHEL-4 machine pretty badly.
>> Among what I've tried so far to fix it, without
>> success, includes going through the upgrade path on
>> the RHEL-4 install disks, and copying the /etc tree
>> from another RHEL-4 machine.  Some of what I've
>> tried has made it worse.
>>
>> X doesn't start at all.
>>
>> Is any rescue possible short of a fresh install?  I
>> also tried the install path of the RHEL-4 CDs,
>> hoping to use an option (which has worked on the
>> same machine in the past) to retain user data but
>> replace the installation, but I'm getting stuck with
>> that, too.
>>
>> Of course I didn't back up the /etc tree before
>> clobbering it.  Is there any hope?
>>
>> Billy
>>
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