What were you doing before you first noticed these problems. Also, you might try checking that your /etc/fstab file is correct. Victor On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, reg hughson wrote:
I am just about to dump suse and try another distro as i am getting very frustrated.
using yast to install software and update my system has caused me nothing but grief. i now have a host of problems. well, yast now has no idea what partitions exist on the disk. my / partition is dev/hda5 and my swap is /dev/hda6 yet yast is convinced my swap is dev/hda7 (which doesn't exist) and that my root is /dev/hda6 (which is my swap). of course when i tell it to read the old fstab, the only place it looks for one is on hda6 where of course it doesn't find one.
fdisk reports that hda6 is ext2 and hda7 is swap while stating that hda5 is empty. dos's fdisk won't even read the partition table.
everything was fine until i was using yast so i am convinced that it is yast that screwed up my partition table somehow. but what i can't understand is why my system will boot no problem from hda5 with hda6 as my swap and the /etc/fstab on hda5 is fine yet yast and fdisk are under the misguided impression that hda6 and hda7 are the correct ones.
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