[SLUG] Stuffed Triple Boot System
I have just stuffed up my triple boot system: Fedora/WinXP/RH7.2 BACKGROUND: Taking a HDD with an existing RH7.2 installation, and putting it into a functioning Fedora/XP dual boot system so that it can be booted (don't ask why - there are good reasons). ACTION: Booted into fedora, added the RH7.2 boot partition into /etc/fstab, mounted the rh /boot partition, changed its label, copied the lines from its grub.conf file into the fedora grub.conf file with relevant changes (eg, changing it from hd0,1 to hd1,1) (after backing up grub.conf, or course). PROBLEM 1: The new option shows up on the boot screen; however, when I choose it, I get the following error: root(hd1,1) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82 Kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb3 Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition PROBLEM 2: Worse, when I select to boot into Fedora, I get the following errors: Unable to open /etc/fstab for writing: Read only file system. (then other Read only file system errors when the system tries to touch a file, until the boot hangs). Can't figure out how to fix it when I get into the grub command-line, either. Fortunately I can still boot into Windows (or I wouldn't be sending this email!) :-/ Edwin Humphries, Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ironstone.com.au Phone: 02 4233 2285 Fax: 02 4233 2299 Mobile: 0419 233 051 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Stuffed Triple Boot System
I've accessed the boot filesystem (mounting it from a Lindows CD demo) and fixed that - it's now OK. I tried to mount the root filesystem in the same way (mounting it as a CDROM, as no other options were available in the mnt directory) and got an error: /dev/hda3 is already mounted or /mnt/cdrom is busy. Neither was true. Booting into Fedora shows that the fstab file is bad, and I'm assuming that I have to fix that to correct the problem. The only issue is how I access it when i can't boot or mount the partition! On 10 May 2004 at 12:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send us your grub.conf and details of your disk partitioning -- to the list Edwin Humphries, Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ironstone.com.au Phone: 02 4233 2285 Fax: 02 4233 2299 Mobile: 0419 233 051 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Stuffed Triple Boot System
Problem has almost gone ()linux rescue to the rescue) - all I'm now experiencing is that the filesystem labels don't quite match what is being looked for. On 10 May 2004 at 11:37, Edwin Humphries wrote: I have just stuffed up my triple boot system: Fedora/WinXP/RH7.2 BACKGROUND: Taking a HDD with an existing RH7.2 installation, and putting it into a functioning Fedora/XP dual boot system so that it can be booted (don't ask why - there are good reasons). ACTION: Booted into fedora, added the RH7.2 boot partition into /etc/fstab, mounted the rh /boot partition, changed its label, copied the lines from its grub.conf file into the fedora grub.conf file with relevant changes (eg, changing it from hd0,1 to hd1,1) (after backing up grub.conf, or course). PROBLEM 1: The new option shows up on the boot screen; however, when I choose it, I get the following error: root(hd1,1) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82 Kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb3 Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition PROBLEM 2: Worse, when I select to boot into Fedora, I get the following errors: Unable to open /etc/fstab for writing: Read only file system. (then other Read only file system errors when the system tries to touch a file, until the boot hangs). Can't figure out how to fix it when I get into the grub command- line, either. Fortunately I can still boot into Windows (or I wouldn't be sending this email!) :-/ Edwin Humphries, Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ironstone.com.au Phone: 02 4233 2285 Fax: 02 4233 2299 Mobile: 0419 233 051 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html Edwin Humphries, Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ironstone.com.au Phone: 02 4233 2285 Fax: 02 4233 2299 Mobile: 0419 233 051 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Stuffed Triple Boot System
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:23:35PM +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote: Problem has almost gone ()linux rescue to the rescue) - all I'm now experiencing is that the filesystem labels don't quite match what is being looked for. By default, RH uses volume labels rather than device names to mount its partitions. Fedora probably does the same. So /etc/fstab has lines like these: LABEL=/ / ext3defaults1 1 LABEL=/home /home ext3defaults1 2 You need to change /etc/fstab on *both* to use the device names rather than labels, e.g.: /dev/hda1/ ext3defaults1 1 /dev/hda2/home ext3defaults1 2 Cheers, John -- I don't care if it was a hyperdestructive worm from the Phillipines; no journalist is prepared for outpourings of love in her email, however weird and viral. -- Angela Gunn, Seattle Weekly, 11-May-2000 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
