Search This Blog

Showing posts with label Recover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recover. Show all posts

Saturday, December 02, 2017

Windows could not complete the installation. To install windows on this computer restart the installation

SHIFT-F10 to bring up command prompt.
cd c:\windows\system32\oobe
msoobe.exe
Make a generic account and password. 
Hit finish (if it requests a product key and you have one, enter it now.  if OEM/No key required, just finish). 
Set time/date. 
Finish.

Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Boot from grub2 rescue prompt

grub rescue> set prefix=(hd0,1)/boot/grub2
grub rescue> set root=(hd0,1)
grub rescue> insmod normal
grub rescue> normal
grub rescue> insmod linux
grub rescue> linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1
grub rescue> initrd /boot/initrd.img
grub rescue> boot

Tuesday, November 01, 2016

DR/Migrate Sco SysV

1)      Reinstall SCO Base system
2)      Copy /etc/conf to a backup directory (ie: copy –ormv /etc/conf /usr/rcvr/conf)
3)      Remove all contents of /etc/conf (cd /etc/conf && rm –r /etc/conf/*)
4)      Change file creation mask on root filesystem (cd / && umask 0)
5)      Restore tape excluding /dev & /stand (cpio –icvdmufB< /dev/rStp0 “dev/*” “stand/*” )
6)      Copy ttytype & inittab to backup directory (ex: cp /etc/inittab /usr/rcvr/ )
7)      Use SCOadmin to relink the kernel
8)      If asked to rebuild environment answer (y)YES
9)      Put back inittab & ttytype form the backup (ex: cp /usr/rcvr/inittab  /etc/inittab)
     10)     Reboot & have a Beer