Colburn wrote: > > > What does /etc/fstab say? > > LABEL=/ /hdb ext3 user,owner, exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1 As Doug and Aaron already mentioned, you need to change "/hdb" into "/". I hope that will already fix the problem. > > Maybe an older grub got installed, which is not capable of reading > > ext3 partitions. Try this: > > Boot from the first Red Hat Linux CD from RHL9 > > At the boot: promt, enter "linux rescue" (without quotes) > > ls /mnt/sysimage > > Nothing if I boot from the Recovery floppy. > Using the KRUD CD#1 I see boot,dev,hdb,proc There's "hdb" again. It should not be there, instead the content of your root partition should show (/etc /usr /var and so on). > > Look if every partition has been found. If so, > > chroot /etc/sysimage > > I get errors on this re. no such file or directory. Sorry, my mistake! It should be chroot /mnt/sysimage But you don't need to do this, I think fixing /etc/fstab will be sufficient. > > Check the content of /boot/grub/grub.conf > > Nothing using the Rescue floppy. > Nothing using KRUD CD#1 if I select hda2 when it asks which partition > holds the root partition, but I do get somewhere if I select hdb3: > default=0 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.wpm.gz > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinux-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi > initrd initrd-2.4.18-14.img > title DOS > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 Looks fine. Best regards, Martin Stricker -- Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/ Linux Migration Project: http://www.linux-migration.org/ Red Hat Linux 8.0 for low memory: http://www.rule-project.org/ Registered Linux user #210635: http://counter.li.org/ -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
