I think I really messed things up.
My Slackware 96 system shared a drive with Windows 98. Windows was on
/dev/hda1 and Linux was on /dev/hdb1. LILO was installed on hda1 and gave
you the option to boot windows or linux. This all worked for years until I
purchased a new machine to house my windows drive.
After that machine was up and running I took the linux drive, switched
jumpers so it was now the master, changed the bios to reflect the drive
change, and booted from a boot floppy.
I mounted the drive with "mount root=/dev/hda1", logged in as root, replaced
/dev/hdb1 with hda1 in /etc/fstab, did the same with lilo.conf, ran lilo to
update everything, ran linux fdisk and made hda1 my bootable drive.
When I rebooted, everything looked good until fsck ran. It found a few
errors and said it fixed them all. When the login screen appears, no matter
how I login, I am never asked for a password and am simply given the login
screen again after a pause of a few seconds.
When I rebooted again, I kept getting a message that my drive could not be
mounted read-write since it was already mounted that way. LILO does have a
line that reads "read-only" in it.
I made a root floppy and booted with that, mounted the hard drive and
checked it out. Nothing is out of the ordinary. Running fsck reports no
errors or problems.
What have I done? How can I repair it short of reinstalling.
Todd
