On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 03:21:18PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > I have recently carried out a dist-upgrade on a long time running i386 debian > machine. Somehow the new distro changed its device naming from hda1 to sda1 > and now my ide attached harddisk fails to boot! Booting it will only take me > as far as raminitd (or something to that effect which i can't remember > exactly). I managed to edit the grub entry to become sda1 and it booted all > the way to login prompt and I am stuck. There is no other partition which > I've made like /usr, /home, /var, etc. So I have no way of editing my > /etc/mount since there isn't such file nor is there an editor i can use.
I assue you mean /etc/fstab, not /etc/mount? I believe nano is installed in /bin; maybe you can use that to edit fstab? If you can't log in (I'm unclear whether you can from the above), you can try booting in single-user mode. The alternative is to just mount the partitions by hand; e.g., mount /dev/sda2 /mountpoint You can mount them on a temporary directory (e.g., /mnt/tmp) and examine the contents if you aren't sure which is which. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
