On Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:34 pm, Lee wrote:
I had Mandrake 9.2 running fine with two disks. (hda) has the root
filesystem, (hdb) had only one directory I used for Samba. Both were ext3
fs. I suspected problems with hdb, but WDDiag test results were ok, so I
wiped the hdb disk with zeros
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:09:03 -0800
Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am going to assume that it is reading about /dev/hdb1 from fstab,
and so you have to remove it there.
I would try to boot and do it interactively, so then when fstab is
read, you can stop it from trying to get hdb.
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:09:03 -0800, Rob Blomquist
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I am going to assume that it is reading about /dev/hdb1 from fstab, and
so you have to remove it there.
I would try to boot and do it interactively, so then when fstab is
read, you can stop it from trying to get hdb.
Boot from the MDK installation disk (CD1) and, at the splash screen hit
F1, then at the prompt type rescue. This will boot the system from the
cdrom and present you with a menu. Select mount partitions on /mnt,
then go to console. From the console, cd to /mnt/etc and edit fstab to
remove the
Would you also be able to do this by booting to rescue mode with the
MDK install disk or by booting to single-user mode? Just wondering
here if there may be an easier route since I may be encountering this
same problem as well. Thx
Jerry.
Nevermind, Raffaele answered my question further
I had Mandrake 9.2 running fine with two disks. (hda) has the root
filesystem, (hdb) had only one directory I used for Samba. Both were ext3
fs. I suspected problems with hdb, but WDDiag test results were ok, so I
wiped the hdb disk with zeros anyway using the Western Digital utilities.
Now I
