On Wednesday 09 February 2005 12:53 pm, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Well, duh.. you have a line in fstab that probably looks a lot like this:
/dev/hdd1 <somewhere> reiserfs defaults 1 1
and this thing is getting mounted every time you boot. Of course it will fail when you try to mount another drive that isn't formatted Reiser, or isn't even partitioned.
However, locking up isn't something I'd expect; rather, I'd expect during the boot process that you'd see output to the effect that HDD is not formatted Reiser (or if unpartitioned, no partition table found), hence isn't being mounted. When you are able, please email me the /var/log/boot.msg for a successful as well as a failed boot (whenever you boot, /var/log/boot.msg is renamed /var/log/boot.omsg so you shouldn't need to do anything more than reconfigure and reboot).
And to add to all of the above.... if it's the entry in fstab that you are diddling with then GRUB is not your problem. You are way beyond grub by the time the fstab gets looked at. You would be best off the 'pre-edit' the fstab..... do the partitioning and formatting, then re-edit the fstab and try to re-boot. Should work as I said in another post.