> The boot partition (where the kernel lives). No way to know if it is the > old, or the new or it is used by both installs (well, you could mount it > and see the dates of the files, I guess). hmmm - the whole "mount" idea isn't going too well either *laugh* - it tends to say that modprobe can't find module yp or something - tried many versions of this stuff - sorry no detail on this *laugh* > So this is probably where the new install is located. Did you try > /dev/hdb1? There must be one. What is the output of: > fdisk -l /dev/hda > fdisk -l /dev/hdb I believe I tried e2label /dev/hdb1 and got the same error as on hda2 - but not SURE - the machine is currently off - at some point I tried a reboot and it got stuck (and old oddity) and I turned it off for the time being as I am leaving shortly... > Anyway, any grub experts out there? Probably grub needs to be pointed to > /dev/hdb1 as the root partition, right? an interesting problem is GETTING to grub. I did find a grub.conf - I think in /dev/hdb2/etc - somewhere or other - but when I tried to edit it, it couldn't get it open I wish I knew the options at that floppy's boot: prompt because I sort of guess at things to try - like I tried booting and giving that prompt "linux boot=/dev/hdb3 and such and init= and root= and a few different things. at this point it's always the same, since I first booted up using "linux single", it now has always booted and not done the kernel panic, but given me the filesystem error and dropped me to a shell. that's why I keep asking on here 'cause I don't know too well how these directories are structured, what the parameter possibilities are, etc. somewhere I have a damn linux reference but I can't find it yet hmmm. very odd. very interesting.
