First, there's no need to modify mtab; that's the current state of the
system. You only need to modify fstab.
By the same token, the empty mtab is just empty 'cause the mount fails,
but you already knew that; the mtab~ is from when you edited the mtab.
The problem here is that your /boot/System.map must be out of sync with
the boot image, but since you didn't recompile the kernel or otherwise
change it (if I follow you correctly) I don't see why this is.
I'd probably re-rerun lilo as a first pass, and if that doesn't work
build and install a new kernel.
(I'm not sure what the recommended approach here is, frankly; I just
let it build it where "make bzlilo" likes to put it and modify
lilo.conf to match, ditching the /boot dir, but that's obviously not
the appoach you want to take.
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| Thanks for the reply. I was beginning to think that was no one
out | there.
|
| Actually, I dropped one back to v6.1 for the rescue disk. Unfortunately I
| can't out just what I have to fix.
| At 03:00 PM 03/27/2000 -0500, you wrote:
|
| >Well, you know already that you should never, ever be without a rescue
| >disk.
| >
| >That said, just start and install in and use ALT-F2 (or F3, or F4) to go
| >to another terminal window. You should be able to patch up things from
| >there.
| >
| >(At least this trick works with RedHat; I assume it will with Mandrake
| >as well.)
| >
| >You're in a sorta "funny" environment, but you can probably stumble
| >around ok there.
|
| I'm not too sure what's funny. I use one partition for production and the
| other for playing with new things.
|
| >On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| >| Mandrake Helios. This morning I did something really dumb. I had the
| >| following (part of the partitions):
| >|
| >| /dev/hdb7 / ext2 defaults
| >| /dev/hdc10 /Venus ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
| >| /dev/hdc11 /programs ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
| >|
| >| where Venus was an older RH installation. I deleted everything on
| >| /dev/hdc10 and moved all of the files on /program to /dev/hdc10 and then
| >| renamed the two mount points in /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab.
| >|
| >| Unfortunately when I attempt to reboot into Helios the boot hangs on:
| >|
| >| Setting /boot/System.map to the current running kernel
| >|
| >| until I hit CTRL-C, at which point the boot moves on to:
| >|
| >| Booting other file systems
| >|
| >| where it hangs completly until the three finger salute.
| >|
| >| Using Explore2fs I find that mtab is now empty and mtab~ has the old file
| >| mount point information.
| >|
| >| I have a floppy boot disk, but not a rescue disk.
| >|
| >| Help!!!!!
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