Jurij Smakov wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I need to edit the silo.conf file located to my boot partition ... > > > > With the rescue disk, I manage to start a shell, there, I have tried > > several times to mount the boot partition to be able to edit the silo.conf > > file, but without any success. > > > > My boot partition is at /dev/sda1, I tried the command > > > > mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt > > > > the command proceed successfully, but when I go to the /mnt directory to > > find the silo.conf file, when I type the command ls I see nothing ... this > > is blank > > > > How can I edit this files located in the directory /boot on the disk > > /dev/sda1 ? > > Hm, this sure looks strange. Once you have mounted the partition, try > issuing the 'mount' command to make sure it is really mounted. Does df > report sensible values for the size and the amount of free space on this > mounted partition? > > If the partition is really mounted, and it is really your /boot partition, > then my guess would be that something has gone bad and nothing was > actually installed into /boot. Note that the /etc/silo.conf file is > most likely located on the / (root) partition, which may be /dev/sda2 or > something else in your case. You can see the list of available partitions > from the rescue disk by using parted or fdisk. > > Best regards,
I don't know if this helps, but I had a similar problem. Perhaps your device is buried deep down in a path like this, as it was in my case: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc/part1 You could just give it a try, but change the "bus", "target", "lun" numbers according to your layout. Cheers Friedhelm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
