On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mary Gardiner wrote:
>>
>> However, the reported contents of his /home is rather odd.
>>
>>> From his original mail:
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home$ ls
>> bin dev initrd.img media root tmp vmlinuz.old
>> boot etc initrd.img.old mnt sbin usr
>> cdrom home lib opt srv var
>> david initrd lost+found proc sys vmlinuz
>>
>> That does rather look like somehow things that should be in / have been
>> copied
>> to or installed in /home.
>
> Yes, looks like someone has made a mistake installing/migrating a system.
Or mounted what was intended to be the root partition under /home.
Try to edit the GRUB config file (usually /boot/grub/menu.lst) to tell
it to use your what is now mounted at /home (find it from "mount" or
"df") as the root partition ("/").
Be careful with what you do there, though.
--Amos
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