Thanks Rene for the help. I managed to manoeuvre myself to the root of the main on the ext2 partition, but I could not work out what drive I was in. mnt/dev/hdbX gave permission denied. Managed to load /etc/fstab but again could not see what line to edit. So questions are:- do you change drive by /dev/hdbX or mnt/dev/hdbX, What do you use to see which drive you are on What line in fstab is the line to change. Very basic questions but would appreciate your help Regards, David On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 16:39:33 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
I hat the same thing a year ago as I done something similar as you. he problem arose beacause the ext2 partition was /dev/hdaX. Now you deleted Y paritions before that.
Now the ext2 ist /dev/hdaZ. (any number depending on your parition table). So he could not find his root fs anymoure
From there you could do nothing.
Use the boot disk to start the rescue system.
Try mount your ext2 partition under /mnt. (search all /dev/hdaZ's to find the partition)
Edit /mnt/etc/fstab to coorect the devices there.
How is it now?
Rene