This one time, at band camp, Elias Schwerdtfeger said: > Important additional information: > > I read a little in the scripts in /scripts (but I didn't understand them > fully and I didn't try this). They seem to expect the root file system > (in my case /dev/hda3) mounted on /root - but as I looked in /root, I > found my /home directories on this machine. But the system seems to > "believe", that the /dev/hde disk is my /dev/hda disk, a "mount" command > shows me that /dev/hda was mounted. It sounds as though you've been bitten by a random order of initialization of the IDE controllers. I suggest using filesystem labels instead of device nodes in /etc/fstab to prevent this from happening. If you can manage to boot into single user mode again, run e2label <label> /dev/hda1 and repeat for the other mount points. Change your boot loader to use a label as well, kopt=root=/dev/disk/by-label/<label> should do for grub (although I am not sure how that works with the device map - that may need some investigation). Good luck, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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