booting a kernel directly from stage 1/2

[Matthew Seaman]

On 19/02/2011 02:47, Alexander Best wrote:
> but that won't work. i get some numbers and then it says:
> btx halted or something like that.

Can't you boot into fixit mode from installation media?  That should
allow you to repair the boot blocks and make your system bootable again.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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