[SLE] Non-Booting Suse System
A friend of mine has a slight problem with his suse 6.2 system and has asked me to take a look next weekend. He has added a eide cdwriter to his system and in the process has changed the master/slave settings on one of his drives (i dont know yet in what way its changed but at worst i can look at the cableing) Now the disk that was changed has his suse 6.2 system on it ... and now of course it wont boot. Now i assume that if i boot off floppy (or cd) i should be able to mount the partition(s) manually so i can edit the configuration files. i can see that /etc/lilo.conf (and lilo rerun) and /etc/fstab will need to be altered to reflect the new drive designation (hda, hdb etc) but what other changes will be need to be made to get this system up and running again ... (i dont particularly want to reinstall the whole thing for him!) thanks in advance tim ============================================================= Tim Hempstead, tim@sevigny.demon.co.uk "Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea-cosy, dosn't try it on" - Billy Connelly http://www.sevigny.demon.co.uk/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi, On Sun, Mar 05 2000 at 16:03 -0000, Tim Hempstead wrote:
Now the disk that was changed has his suse 6.2 system on it ... and now of course it wont boot. Now i assume that if i boot off floppy (or cd) i should be able to mount the partition(s) manually so i can edit the configuration files. i can see that /etc/lilo.conf (and lilo rerun) and /etc/fstab will need to be altered to reflect the new drive designation (hda, hdb etc) but what other changes will be need to be made to get this system up and running again ... (i dont particularly want to reinstall the whole thing for him!)
You don't have to reinstall everything. Changing fstab and lilo.conf should be sufficient. Ciao, Stefan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi, SuSE 6.1, Yast 0.997.2 I have a working Network set-up, except that I have to configure the network card manually after each reboot. Although this is a minor irritation, I would like to get it sorted out. Yast will not let me install the NIC using 'Integrate Hardware into the system', it just ignores what I enter. So I have to set it up manually. The Yast option 'Network base Configuration' is always disabled, even when the NIC is set-up and working... Any ideas? Cheers Phil -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Phil Shrimpton wrote:
SuSE 6.1, Yast 0.997.2
I have a working Network set-up, except that I have to configure the network card manually after each reboot. Although this is a minor irritation, I would like to get it sorted out.
What do you have to do to set up your net card. If you tell us, we could probably tell you what files to edit.
Yast will not let me install the NIC using 'Integrate Hardware into the system', it just ignores what I enter. So I have to set it up manually.
What do you mean by 'just ignores what I enter'?
The Yast option 'Network base Configuration' is always disabled, even when the NIC is set-up and working...
The network base configuration is disabled because you have DHCP enabled. To get into 'Network base Configuration' you have to disable DHCP, make your changes, and then reenable DHCP again. Hope that helps, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Tim Hempstead wrote: th> th> Now the disk that was changed has his suse 6.2 system on it ... th> and now of course it wont boot. Now i assume that if i boot off th> floppy (or cd) i should be able to mount the partition(s) manually so th> i can edit the configuration files. i can see that /etc/lilo.conf (and th> lilo rerun) and /etc/fstab will need to be altered to reflect the new th> drive designation (hda, hdb etc) but what other changes will be th> need to be made to get this system up and running again ... (i dont th> particularly want to reinstall the whole thing for him!) th> You'll also have to modify /etc/fstab so it knows where the drive is now located. th> th> thanks in advance th> th> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.3+ - Kernel 2.2.14 "That boy's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver" -- Foghorn Leghorn -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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