Sid, thank you for your advise. It appears I've solved the disk switch from /dev/hdb to /dev/hda. Here it is 1. I booted using CD 1 setting up for text mode. 2. I choose Manual Installation 3. Choose to update and existing install 4. Run through the dialogs looking for when a new MBR is going to be written 5. Write a new GRUB to the MBR. 6. Reboot 7. Try it to see if that works for you or not. The Info panel in Midnight Commander identifies the source filesystem as /dev/hda... Still some things seem 'Spooky'. All the hardware must be updated. Not all the Yast->Hardware system parts appear correct. I am left wondering about applications that may be wrong. I've decided to reinstall from scratch. Too bad, it takes up to four hours. I think that is way too long. My next EMail to the list will be about redoing an install after an unusual event. Also, I want to here about if there are ways to put the CD's on say a hard drive and automate installs. I want to sell LINUX light servers but have to find a ways to cut customizing and rebuilding systems. Sid Boyce wrote:
All may not be lost. Sounds like a permissions thing to do with ACL's, perhaps you could put the drive back into the other machine and use setfacl to reset the permissions, then you should be able to write to the drive. /boot/grub/menu.lst probably needs editing with the disk in the new machine so it points to (hd0,0), then you would need to do a grub-install /dev/hda. I've never used the CD for repair, I have timos rescuecd ( search for rescuecd on freshmeat.net) which I've used with SuSE and Mandrake. I boot it, "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt", "chroot /mnt", edit menu.lst "grub-install /dev/hda" and reboot. Regards Sid.
John S. Wolter wrote:
We'll I've backed myself into a corner during 9.0 install. I put a 2nd HD, /dev/hdb, into an exist machine and installed 9.0. All went well. So next I was going to put that 2nd HD into another machine as /dev/hda. I thought I would edit grub.conf and fstab and it would boot. Right? Not exactly. No doubt I'm about to learn new things.
I booted manually the /root partition from the CD and manually mounted the filesystems. Then I discovered I'm not able to edit and save grub.conf or fstab. OK.... Then I noticed using Midnight Commanders Info panel that the files believe they are on /dev/hdb. I've enabled ACL's & Extended Attributes but I don't know if that has anything to do with the problem.
Well folks is it reinstall time or is there and easy way out of my own mistake. ------------ Wolter Works - Always Innovating ------------- - Industry and Commerce Internet Invention - Internet Marketing Product Concepts & Implementation
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