Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> writes: > IMO you gave up too soon. IIRC you never showed us output from parted -l > or fdisk > -l. Very likely on the problem PC the / filesystem was/is not on the first > partition, where often lies a swap partition. Very likely root=/dev/sda2 > would > have been/be correct.
Sorry. I meant to do that. Swap is the last partition. Disk /dev/sde: 29.8 GiB, 32017047552 bytes, 62533296 sectors Disk model: 600 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00000080 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sde1 2048 59314876 59312829 28.3G 83 Linux /dev/sde2 59314877 62533295 3218419 1.5G 5 Extended /dev/sde5 59316925 62533295 3216371 1.5G 82 Linux swap / Solaris $ ls -1 /mnt/ bin boot dev etc home initrd.img initrd.img.old lib lost+found media mnt opt proc root run sbin srv sys tmp usr var vmlinuz vmlinuz.old
