On Saturday 28 Feb 2004 6:35 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > From: "Richard Urwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Howabout this for a theory: > > You installed 10.0 on the second disk while it was the only disk in > > the machine, and therefore was hda. Your mount table, which > > specifies which disk partitions are mapped to which Linux > > directories, refers to the partitions on disk b as if they are on > > disk a. You are therefore using the partitions on the 9.2 disk. The > > boot procedure works because you are booting from the second > > disk(?) or you have corrected the grub conf on hda to point to the > > 10.0 kernel(?) So the kernel loads OK, but the mounted partitions > > do not point at the 10.0 files, they point at the 9.2 files. In > > trying to fix it, or in just running 10.0, you corrupted something > > in the 9.2 files so 9.2 doesn't work either. > > Ok thats a reasonable explanition. So the solution is to reformat hdb > and reinstall 10.0 to hda. A question if I may is there an easy way > to transfer windows to hdb (dosent sound like there is). I cant > reinstall windows because each time I have I have to spend 3 or 4 > days because viruses sneek in while downloading the virus > definations. Thanks for your input Richard I think you are right.
Send us details of exactly how the two disks are partitioned - use diskdrake - and the contents of the two /etc/fstab files. I thought you said that you removed XP. It may still be possible to rescue at least one disk. I don't fancy your chances in moving Windows, but you shouldn't have to. If you don't re-partition the disks it can stay where it is. -- Richard Urwin
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