On Friday 06 May 2005 06:49 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Use the "Mount your partitions under /mnt" and then the "Go to console" > options. Once you have the console prompt, run "chroot /mnt". Then edit > /etc/fstab with the editor of your choice. This will let you get rid of > the bad swap entry. This is what my fstab file looks like: # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/mdk10.2leFresh ext2 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
I want to get rid of the references to the hdb drive, > > Mext, take a look at /etc/lilo.conf. The line you want to check is > "boot=/dev/hda" or something like that. Because you are using System > Commander, you will need to have the boot entry point to your root or > /boot partition. You then need to make sure your System Commander menu > entry is set to boot from that partition. Make sure you remember to run > lilo after making the changes. This is the lilo.config file: # File generated by DrakX/drakboot # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file default="2681-24" boot=/dev/fd0 map=/boot/map keytable=/boot/uk.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux-nonfb" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="splash=silent acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdk label="2427-0pre21" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdk.img append="acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-12mdk label="2681-12" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.8.1-12mdk.img append="acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-24mdk label="2681-24" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.8.1-24mdk.img append="acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="failsafe noapic splash=silent acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5 devfs=nomount" read-only What should I be changing? My boot info is in the root partition hda1. Thanks for your help. Simon.
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