Re: ide channel 3 HDD - Linux won't boot
Frankie wrote: HTML code - please don't; it's a pain in the neck for ordinary mailreaders. I cannot get linux to boot from my HDD, which comes up as hde. I altered the entries in my fstab when I upgraded my computer. /etc/fstab has nothing to do with booting; its job is to tabulate which file systems are to be mounted when the system goes multi-user. The file you need to amend is /etc/lilo.conf; if you don't know how, post the device and partition you want to boot from (/dev/hde1?). Remember to rerun lilo after changing the lilo.conf file. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? Romans 8:31
ide channel 3 HDD - Linux won't boot
I cannot get linux to boot from my HDD, which comes up as hde. I altered the entries in my fstab when I upgraded my computer. The reason I have it on the 3rd ide channel, is that my old 486 had no problems with drives 2.1M, but my (second-hand) pentium does. I have an old western digital 32 bit ide card kicking around, so I put that in, and bios doesn't hang when I boot. Linux gets up to loading the root filesystem, then cant and halts. I know that Linux can read the harddisk (well it works in DOS/WIndows :-( [I wouldn't mind it not working in win85 as long as it worked in Linux]) because when I booted off the rescue disk to change the fstab entries, I had to mount it and it worked. Anyone got any ideas? I will be really grateful for any help Frankie
