Re: file system
I note that the kernel is trying to load /dev/hda4 as the root partition. I'm
not familiar with the grup notation but is:
hd0,3 => hda3 or hda4.
Cheers
David
On Friday 06 December 2002 15:12, Bruce Park wrote:
> Hello Debian users,
>
> I need some help regarding file system in Linux. Currently, I have four
> partitions on my hard drive. I will use Grub's notation for representing an
> IDE primary-master hard drive
>
> hd0,0 - Windows (NTFS)
> hd0,1 - boot (ext 2)
> hd0,2 - swap (swap)
> hd0,3 - root (ext 3)
>
> When I boot using Grub, I'm having problems loading the linux portion.
> Here's what I have in /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> title Debian GNU/Linux
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2-4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda4 ro
>
> I keep getting an error stating that it wants an ext 2 file type. I'm
> thinking that since boot is ext2 and root is ext3, this is causing this
> problem. I would like to solve this problem by converting the boot
partition
> to ext 3. Would this solve the problem? If so, how can I perform such file
> conversion without losing data in that partition?
>
> bp
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