Totally weird. Today /dev/disk/by-id/ata* in fstab couldn't be dealt with upon boot, but I still could login as root (with only the root partition mounted), whereupon I did reboot(8), and miraculously this time the boot went smoothly!
So one does not need to rerun lilo, nor change /etc/fstab at all. Just reboot. I suppose if that doesn't work, then just reboot again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]