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VFS Woes

  • 01-10-2005 11:32AM
    #1
    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys,
    So originally I had my entire hard drive dedicated to Linux (Ubuntu), and as I was going back to college I needed to throw windows on it. So originally my root partition / was /dev/hda1, but with all the resizing and partitioning I had to do the root partition is now /dev/hda3, and windows is /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2. I've updated grub and /etc/fstab accordingly, but when I try to boot into linux, VFS is still looking at /dev/hda1, and gives an error saying that no ext3 filesystem was found on /dev/hda1. Then I get a kernel panic and the bootup hangs. Is there some way that I can tell VFS to look at /dev/hda3 instead of /dev/hda1?

    Thanks for your help!


Comments

  • #2
    flamegrill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,848 ✭✭✭flamegrill


    /me thinks you didn't edit /boot/grub/menu.lst with the correct root partition

    Regards,

    Paul


  • #3
    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    Nevermind guys, I fixed it.

    Note to self: Make sure you change menu.lst PROPERLY. Being hungover sure slows me down.

    root=/dev/hda1 was still in menu.lst, I changed root (hd0,0) to root (hd0,2) but never changed root=/dev/hda1 to root=/dev/hda3. I should be blonde!


  • #4
    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    flamegrill wrote:
    /me thinks you didn't edit /boot/grub/menu.lst with the correct root partition

    Regards,

    Paul

    Smartarse! :p


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