This is strange. You are mounting hda6 on /mnt, and then the CD-ROM is mounting on /mnt/cdrom. It is not normal proactice to mount anyting on /mnt, as you normaly have mount points for removable devices in this directory. In your case, your CD-ROM is mounted there, as well as your Windows partition. I would have to look into things a lot deeper, to see exactly what order things would get mounted, but I can picture all kinds of strange things going on here. If the Windows partition gets mounted before hda6, then you are probably going to lose access to it. I am not sure what is going to happen with the CD-ROM, but I would not be susprised if it failed to mount if there is not a cdrom directory in the base directory on hda6.
Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file.
Here it is
/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
Regards
Rosemary
What you may want to try is to boot the install CD in the rescue mode, drop to the console, and run:
mount /dev/hda5 /mnt cd /mnt/etc mv fstab fstab.save grep -v hda6 fstab.save >> fstab cd umount /mnt reboot
What you are doing is to mount your root partition, and change to what is normaly the /etc direcroty. You are then renaming fstab to fstab.save. The grep command is cheating a new fstab without the hda6 line in it.
If you are more comfortable using vi instead of messing around with grep, and renaming files, use this instead.
mount /dev/hda5 /mnt cd /mnt/etc cp fstab fstab.save vi fstab move down to line starting /dev/hda6 Enter "i#<Esc>" Enter ":wq" cd / umount /mnt eboot
For the vi commands, do not enter the ", and the <Esc> is the Esc key. Use the down arrow key to move down the hage. What you are doing is putting the "#" at the start of the line to comment it out. You do not realy need to make a backup copy of fstab, but I like to play it safe.
Now, I don't know if this will fix the problem you are having, and we will have to discover what is going on with hda6, and where it should be mounted. But it is one problem that I do see, so fixing it should not hurt. (If it is susposed to be mounted of /usr, then we have to get it mounted correctly before the will boot correctly!)
Mikkel --
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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