Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Ardour Crash + can't boot
From: Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano (nando_AT_ccrma.stanford.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 25 2004 - 06:03:18 EEST
> > So this is probably where the new install is located. Did you try
> > /dev/hdb1? There must be one. What is the output of:
> > fdisk -l /dev/hda
> > fdisk -l /dev/hdb
>
> I believe I tried e2label /dev/hdb1 and got the same error as on hda2 - but
> not SURE - the machine is currently off - at some point I tried a reboot and
> it got stuck (and old oddity) and I turned it off for the time being as I am
> leaving shortly...
>
> > Anyway, any grub experts out there? Probably grub needs to be pointed to
> > /dev/hdb1 as the root partition, right?
>
> an interesting problem is GETTING to grub. I did find a grub.conf - I think
> in /dev/hdb2/etc - somewhere or other - but when I tried to edit it, it
> couldn't get it open
>
> I wish I knew the options at that floppy's boot: prompt because I sort of
> guess at things to try - like I tried booting and giving that prompt "linux
> boot=/dev/hdb3 and such and init= and root= and a few different things. at
> this point it's always the same, since I first booted up using "linux
> single", it now has always booted and not done the kernel panic, but given
> me the filesystem error and dropped me to a shell.
So you can get a root shell? Check /etc/fstab to see if it is pointing
to the right places, particular that "/" is pointing to the right
device.
-- Fernando
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