If you moved your current Linux parition down in the drive, I believe
you have to redo lilo also. Try booting the boot diskette and see if
you can get at your current drive. If you can, you're in business.
If not, use the boot diskette and a rescue diskette (root file system),
mount your current partition. If your current partition mounts as
/dev/hda2 into /mnt/xxxx, then you'd use that. You'll find out if your
partition name actually changed or not. I ended up with hda2 as my
linux parition, but it's the first partition on the drive. The win
parition is hda1 which is the second one. It might be partition magic
and how it lists things in the partition table.
Once you have your current partition mounted, 'chroot /mnt/xxxx' to
change over to your current partition. Change the '/mnt/xxxx' to your
mount.
Change /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf to point to your current
partition's new name. Then enter 'lilo' and it should rewrite lilo with
the new stuff. I don't believe that lilo writes addresses relative to
the start of the partition, I think it's the whole disk.
M Thompson wrote:
>
> I used PartitionMagic and added an extra Linux partition before my existing
> Linux partitions.
>
> I believe I need to modify the /etc/fstab file to reflect this new setup.
> Once I am able to modify the /etc/fstab file, I need to increment the device
> names by one.
>
> How do I modify /etc/fstab before booting Linux?
>
> Thanks for all the help,
> Matt
>
> BTW - a very generous person gave me their copy of Redhat 6.1 Deluxe when
> they purchased Redhat 6.1 Professional. I couldn't pass up the opportunity
> to install Redhat 6.1, but the partition I made for it lies above the 1024
> cylinder boundry. I therefore had to create an extra partition that resides
> within the first 1024 cylinders on the disk. I'll then mount this new
> partition as /boot so I can boot into Redhat.
>
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