Hi All
I have an old system that I am trying to boot that will not boot.
As originally setup there were two HD in the system. One with data and one with the operating system.
The HD with data has long since been removed and current location is unknown.
The system boots to Finding Modular dependencies: OK Checking file systems Couldn't find matching file system: Label=/mnt/Snoopie This was the name of the old second HD.
I have removed LABEL=/mnt/Snoopie from stab. I know there is at least one other place I need to remove this LABEL from.
Does anyone have any suggestions where that may be.
All this stuff is somewhat distribution dependent, and you haven't said which distro you use. For boot/init purposes, usually you only have to deal with the entries in /etc/fstab (I assume "stab" was a typo for this), which is where the scripts that handle fsck'ing and mounting look for info on what filesystems to mount.
Does the system go on to finish the init process after you get this message? It should, probably, since a filesystem mounted at /etc/Snoopie certainly isn't your root (/) filesystem. If it doesn't ... see if a well-placed CRTL-C will cauwe the process to resume. Once you have the system running, you can check for the source of the init problem more easily. Otherswise, you're going to have to boot from a rescue floppy of CD and mount the remaining filesystem to
If you post again in this, please round up the usual suspects -- tell us the distro and version, the kernel version ("uname -a"), and whether the system continues to init or stops at the point you are describing. Oh yes, also the contents of /etc/fstab -- /etc/Snoopie is almost surely not the "name of the old second HD"; it is the mount point for a filesystem (probably /dev/hdb1, or maybe /dev/hdc1, or possibly something else) on the second hard disk (/dev/hdb or /dev/hdc correspondingly).
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