> Recently somebody suggested that it may be my setup that is causing > the problems and that it is better to have the two hard disks on the > same cable and the two CDROM's on the other. > sound sensible. this was my first thought, too. :-)
> /etc/fstab is necessary for the system to shutdown properly. well, not tu shut down, but only to unmount all partitions. so you can do "init 1", edit /etc/fstab, unmount by hand and reboot. a bigger problem is with lilo ... you would have to set it up for a system, which is not running yet. possibly a boot disk or using loadlin is the best idea, but i really don't know. > Are there other files besides lilo.conf and /etc/fstab that will be > affected by such a change? probably your /dev/cdrom link, if you have one. i can't thing of other problems ... -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!
