On Monday 21 July 2003 10:25, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
> On Monday 21 July 2003 15:47, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > Robert Crawford wrote:
> > >OK- I give up.
> > >
> > >If Azarah is a person, why is he showing up as a storage device, and as
> > > a partition in kde control center information? What am I missing here?
> >
> > At a guess, and probably incorrect... Has your editor inserted a newline
> > in that header string? A bogus newline in /etc/fstab could cause azarah
> > to be a mountpoint...
>
> I just checked the header in my /etc/fstab and as it looks it MUST be a new
> line. Here is the line:
>
> # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.12 2003/03/11
> 02:50:53 azarah Exp $
>
> You see, my KMail broke it exactly at that position, so "02:50:53" is now
> interpreted as the device, "azarah" as mountpoint "Exp" is the type of
> filesystem and "$" is mount option.
>
> So, I think, Robert has to check his fstab more carefully...
> Btw, is it possible that you edited it with nano and forgot the "-w"
> switch?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Renat

Renat,
Yeah- I did edit the shared lilo on the MDK hda6 partition with nano while 
booted to Gentoo after I compiled 2.6.0-test1, and mounted the shared /boot 
to copy the bzImage. And I did forget the -w switch when I opened lilo! Well, 
I'm learning, slowly but surely. Thanks for the info!

Robert 


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