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Re: Moved system partitions--> weird /dev/hdaX???



On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 02:37:54AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> Newbie approach to giving new partition to Nintendo, er, Winblows 98
> for games.. 

ROFL!

> I was partitioned as...
...[snip]...
> I am now with
>   /dev/hda1 as above
>   /dev/hda3 4.5 Gb D: for M$ (primary)
>   /dev/hda5 for / (logical), contains boot files now instead of
>       separate part.
> 
> /dev/hda3 now mounts as the old boot directory.  ????  And I can
> read the files!

You have verified that your fstab does NOT have an entry like:

    /boot   /dev/hda3   ext3        defaults        0   0

You have also verified that /dev/hda3 is NOT bootable, right?
You have also verified that you reran lilo after editing lilo.conf?
Are you installing the lilo boot record _on the master boot record_?

The only way that your system would mount /dev/hda3 is if there's an
entry in the /etc/fstab file.  Good luck!

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