(Sorry for the delayed response.) My hda disk has SuSE 8.2 on it. That's the one that can't open hda3 as the root partition. The hdb disk has an old SuSE 7.3 system on it. Running 7.3, I can mount /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda1. /etc/fstab: /dev/hda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb1 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb3 /data2 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /data3 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /data4 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /data5 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb8 /home2 ext2 noauto,user 1 2 /dev/hda6 /opt reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 /usr reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda7 /var reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 /dev/hdb2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 I re-installed the kernel from the 8.2 installation CD, which also gave me a new initrd. These fail in the same way. /boot/grub/menu.lst: # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Apr 29 13:52:56 2004 color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 gfxmenu (hd0,0)/message timeout 8 title linux kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x31a hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 splash=silent showopts initrd (hd0,0)/initrd title SuSE_7.3 kernel (hd1,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb3 title failsafe kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz.shipped root=/dev/hda3 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,0)/initrd.shipped title floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 -- inet: john@wilkes.com | Fascism conceives of the State as an addr: 321 High School Rd. NE #367 | absolute, in comparison with which all city: Bainbridge Island, Washington | individuals or groups are relative, code: 98110-1697 | only to be conceived of in their icbm: 47 37 48 N / 122 29 52 W | relation to the State. - B. Mussolini On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Thursday 2004-04-29 at 00:03 -0700, John Wilkes wrote:
Guidance and insight will be greatly appreciated.
Could you post your /etc/fstab file? And perhaps your /boot/grub/menu.lst as well.