On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 10:55:02 -0500 Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:49, Antonio Rodr wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:39:28 -0400 > > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: > > > > Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, > > > > testing in hdb. Then hda died, so I removed it, and put hdb as > > > > hda. So now the kernel goes into panick, somewhere it has > > > > written hdb, but hdb doesn't exist anymore. I have got in using > > > > the rescue CD woody cd 1, booting with rescue root=/dev/hda1 but > > > > I don't know what changes must be made. Can some point to the > > > > needed changes? I would like to avoid a whole new installation. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > You need to edit /etc/lilo.conf to indicate the change. > > > Then you need to run lilo to update your system. > > > > I never used lilo, I use grub. I cheked and I don't have > > /etc/lilo.conf > > > > Then run update-grub > Thanks to all of you. Finally got it. Small how to for future reference. Steps: 1. Boot with the installation CD (any should work, I used #1). 2. Press F3 for information about possibilities (may be skipped?) 3. type rescue root=/dev/hda1 4. type in password for root, remount to write as indicated. 5. Change /etc/fstab to reflect hda instead of hdb. 6. Run update-grub. 7. Edit /boot/grub/menu.1st as needed. 8. Reboot. 9. Enjoy. 10. Contribute to the community. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
