RE: swapped / and windoze, I can't boot now!
Just get the default rescue floppy from debian ftp and try
rescue root=/dev/hda1
if that doesn't work try to start installation from that floppy and then you
can stop it and escape to shell, then you just mount linux partition and
edit whatever you need
Marcin Kurc
CAD Systems Administrator
Cooper-Standard Automotive
-----Original Message-----
From: Marcelo Chiapparini [mailto:chiappa@uerj.br]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 6:05 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: swapped / and windoze, I can't boot now!
Hi!,
ok, I messed up with my potato system. It is a dual boot system, windoze +
debian. Windoze was in hda1 and the root filesystem of debian in hda2. I
needed to increase the windoze partition. I used partition magic for doing
it.
But in order to keep the debian's root filesystem within the 2GB boot limit
I
swapped the windoze and debian's root partition. So that, now the debian's
root partition is hda1 and windoze is hda2. I use a boot manager, so I can
choose from what partition boot the system. But I can't boot debian now. I
guess
it is because the /etc/fstab file still contains the old information
regarding the partitions. I think that the solution is to edit the
/etc/fstab
file and write the correct new partition information. But I don't
have a boot floppy. How can I make a generic boot floppy in order to boot
debian and modify the /etc/fstab file? my system can't boot from cd. I will
make the boot floppy from another debian machine.
Thanks in advance for the help,
Regards,
Marcelo
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Marcelo Chiapparini
DFT-IF/UERJ
chiappa@uerj.br
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