Re[2]: [expert] Booting if partitions on disk have been changed

Hello Matt, Wednesday, January 19, 2000, 1:07:34 AM, you wrote: MS What probably happened was you changed the numbers (/dev/hda6 becomes MS /dev/hda5 or somesuch). After the kernel boots, it mounts stuff out of MS /etc/fstab, which will contain the old numbers. Just make sure that after MS

Re: Re[2]: [expert] Booting if partitions on disk have been changed

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, you wrote: Thanks. Any idea how I can boot back into Linux to make the modifications to fstab? The boot process stops/freezes when it gets to trying to mount. Boot Rescue combo or tomsrtbt single-floppy linux disk. Then, mount your existing setup to somewhere like /mnt

Re[4]: [expert] Booting if partitions on disk have been changed

Hello John, Wednesday, January 19, 2000, 3:18:47 PM, you wrote: JA Boot Rescue combo or tomsrtbt single-floppy linux disk. JA Then, mount your existing setup to somewhere like /mnt on JA the floppy and then type "chroot /mnt". This will put you JA back into your "home" system and you can edit

Re: [expert] Booting if partitions on disk have been changed

Kevinuse a rescue disc. The 6.1 cd came without one. But there's an image of one called tomsrtbt (it's /mnt/cdrom/images/rescue/tomsrtbt.img) on the 6.0 cd and on distro's prior to that and on RedHat's cd's there's an .img file called rescue.img. These can be put on a floppy from dos with

Re: Re[4]: [expert] Booting if partitions on disk have been changed

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, you wrote: Thanks! No problem. I've had to do similar things when I didn't know the root password... :-) John

Re: [expert] Booting if partitions on disk have been changed

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, you wrote: Kevinuse a rescue disc. The 6.1 cd came without one. But there's an image of one called tomsrtbt (it's /mnt/cdrom/images/rescue/tomsrtbt.img) on the 6.0 cd and on distro's prior to that and on RedHat's cd's there's an .img file called rescue.img. These

Re: [expert] Booting if partitions on disk have been changed

- Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 10:13 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Booting if partitions on disk have been changed On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, you wrote: Kevinuse a rescue disc. The 6.1 cd came without one

[expert] Booting if partitions on disk have been changed

Hi, I tried once to reboot Linux after I had slightly modified (moved) a couple of OTHER partitions on my drive which changed where the beginning of the extended partition was). I didn't touch the Linux partition at all (a logical partition). However, when I tried to reboot Linux, it stopped

Re: [expert] Booting if partitions on disk have been changed

What probably happened was you changed the numbers (/dev/hda6 becomes /dev/hda5 or somesuch). After the kernel boots, it mounts stuff out of /etc/fstab, which will contain the old numbers. Just make sure that after you edit partition tables, your listing in /etc/fstab agrees with the partition

Re: [expert] Booting if partitions on disk have been changed

- Original Message - From: Kevin Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 3:44 PM Subject: [expert] Booting if partitions on disk have been changed Hi, I tried once to reboot Linux after I had slightly modified (moved) a couple of OTHER