Re: Repartitioned, now can't mount root

2003-07-05 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
I used Redhat 9 for a short while, and I remember now they used the partition labels in the fstab file. Due to the nature of my choice of backup system, it got in the way and I had to edit fstab to set the actual /dev/xxx names so it wouldn't find the label on the modular bay disk on my laptop. S

Re: Repartitioned, now can't mount root

2003-07-04 Thread Ryan Heise
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 04:03:11PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 20:18, Ryan Heise wrote: > > > > When you "failed to mount" what command line or arguments did > > > you use? What's "-t XXX", etc.? > > > > I didn't use -t, just: > > > > mount /dev/hda1 root Strange

Re: Repartitioned, now can't mount root

2003-07-03 Thread Ryan Heise
Here are more details about exactly what I did: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:00:38AM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > It sounds like you had an installed system, with files in /boot and /, > and now it's all one big partition. How did you go about consolidating > the two partitions? I temporar

Re: Repartitioned, now can't mount root

2003-07-03 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 22:00, Ryan Heise wrote: > I've been running Linux on this box without a problem for about 3 years, > and just recently repartitioned so that I have one big root partition It sounds like you had an installed system, with files in /boot and /, and now it's all one big partiti

Repartitioned, now can't mount root

2003-07-02 Thread Ryan Heise
It's hard to know what the true cause of this problem is because: 1. my root partition may be too big (13Gigs) for my BIOS (GIGABYTE GA-6VX7+) 2. I just tripped over my power cord. I've been running Linux on this box without a problem for about 3 years, and just recently repartitioned so that I