looks like you are having a lot of problems. check if pico is working in
rescue mode. btw how are you changing which partition to boot from between
hda1 and hda6.
try changing the fstab for hda1 to get the swap of hda6.
Rajil Saraswat
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> >
> > Whats your current config? And your fstab entries?
>
> Hi Robin and Devdas,
>
> i have C400 64MB 8.5GB, 8MB video, 48x cd, 1.2MB, 1.44MB, multimedia.
>
> how do i change fstab.
> while booting from linux_old hda1 whose swap got deleted, it is giving
> error and mounting hda1 in r/o so i can't change the swap partition.
>
> while booting from linux_new hda6, it is again saying that there are
> errors on hda1 (defined in fstab :) then it is starting fsck, then
> either hanging or not mounting.
>
> going thru boot-rescue, it is going to hda1 but says can't locae vi,
> which other editor is there to change fstab and whether it is accessible
> during rescue.
>
> in dos, explore2fs is opening both linux partitions in r/o hence can't
> change.
>
> what other methods are available.
>
> my hda1 fstab and hda6 fstab are mentioned hereinbelow.
> regards
> -vulcan
>
> hda1:fstab (in this hda2 needs to be changed to hda5. how to?)
> /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy_1.44 ext2 owner,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 owner,exec,dev,suid,ro 0
> 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> /dev/hda3 /drive_c vfat exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
> --------------
> hda6: fstab
> /dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda1 /linux-old ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
> /dev/hda7 /linux-back ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
> /dev/hda3 /win95 vfat exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/flop-144 ext2 user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 0 0
> /dev/fd1 /mnt/flop-12 ext2 user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 1 1
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
> ----------------------
>
>
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