> What kind of error messages did you get during the new install and at > what point in the process? What is the current partitioning structure of > the disk (after all that happened)? You can find out by doing "fdisk -l" > from the rescue prompt, I guess. one - which I can't remember the wording but it was basically akin to can't read from drive hda > It could be that the new install did not update grub (who knows why) to > point to the newly installed system and you are still trying to boot the > old one. Hmmmm, if fact that could be the case if you have duplicated > labels. Check the labels of the partitions that are supposed to be the > "/" partition (you should have two if I understand correctly what you > did). If one of your root partitions is /dev/hda2 then: > > e2label /dev/hda2 > > should output "/" interesting - e2label /dev/hda2 - which I believe is the root, gives me the error about a too high revision (ext3/ext2 thing) e2label /dev/hda - same error - hda0 (which may not exist) same, hda1 same - hda3 it give: /boot there's two drives in this machine - so I tried e2label /dev/hdb same error e2label /dev/hdb2 gives me /
