Thanks Geoff Haven't had any time to look at this yet. Will let you know how it goes Regards, David On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 11:02:12 +0000, Geoff wrote:
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 00:37:12 +0000 David
wrote: Bit stuck with Rene's method. Tried fsck but that just returned to the command line, don't know if it should have any parameters with it. Looked it up in the manual, but it was not on the page they said it was.
I still think that Rene's method offers the better way forward and I am reluctant to encourage you to go further with fsck until you have used it. The reason is that if the problem is simply that your root partition cannot be found, rather than being internally corrupt, then fsck will not help.
I read your reply to Rene, and he may have his own better response than this, but, bearing in mind that you are just feeling your way here, and if he does not have a quicker solution, may I suggest that you do the following to help us to help you.
(1) Start the rescue system.
(2) It appears from your earlier posts that linux is on a second physical (as opposed to logical), drive - ie that it is on hdb. If that is right enter, as root,
. That should show the existing partition table on hdb. You obviously have to be careful about syntax here, because fdisk is the formatter, but that command is, so_far as_I_am_aware, totally safe and you can run it on any drive. When you have seen the output on screen you can run the command again as fdisk -l /dev/hdb > part_table. As you know that will write the output to the file part_table which you can then send to us here. (3) Also send us your existing /etc/fstab.
If Rene's diagnosis is correct, it should be easy to give you instructions from there on.
Geoff
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