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   Bit Twister to faeychild   
   Re: error after rescue HD cont   
   22 Nov 13 14:06:55   
   
   From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:48:18 +1100, faeychild wrote:   
   > Jim Beard wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 11/21/2013 03:02 PM, faeychild wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> I thought you had gotten Mageia 3 to install?  If it installed,   
   >   
   > I think I did, as well as Mandriva. but I will have to replace and partition   
   > the root drive. It is as old as the other two which have recently failed   
   > That will, of course, solve all the problems and is the better solution   
   >   
   >> dracut should be available at /usr/bin/dracut.  You may have to   
   >> be root before it will appear, due to permissions.   
   >   
   > no nothing. locate doesn't find either nor does a direct search of /usr/bin   
      
   In Mageia, it is /usr/bin/dracut and you will have to run it to fix   
   that /dev/sdb2 swap value.   
      
   For an old Mandriva releases it would be something like   
    mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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