On Monday 19 November 2007 11:46:39 pm Billy Holmes wrote: > Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > The kernel now finds the drive, but for some reason puts a little 8MB > > drive at sda, and populates the 'real' 250MB drive at sdb, so the kernel > > still panics (probably due to fstab wanting to see the main drive at sda, > > not sdb). > > that's very odd that there is a sda drive. Perhaps sda is a pen drive > that you have installed? a USB drive? > > you can always change your boot options in grub. > > at the grub prompt, hit [e]dit, select the line which has the "kernel" > line, move the cursor to the end, and change root=/dev/sda1 to /dev/sdb1 > > hit [b]oot > > sit back and smile.
I already tried that - sit back and sulk, I'm afraid :-( Because fstab still points to /dev/sda, it fails when it tries to map the drives. I could play with fstab, but I'm not ready to break my working OS yet. There are no usb drives connected to the system. In fact, the only USB device attached is the HP PSC750xi printer. When it fails after re-pointing the grub booter to /dev/sdb, it does at least fail so that I can get to a shell as root. dmesg doesn't work from the shell, however. I wonder if there is a command I can use to query the new sda and find out where it is getting it from? Jeff ------------------------------------------------------- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
