Re: Booting without swap or make debian knows my swap

["Ms Linuz" <ms.linuz@gmail.com>]

2007/4/7, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>:

On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 11:07:42AM +0700, Ms Linuz wrote:
> I just broke one disk which contained the swap partition of my system.
> Lucky me, the other disk that holds my file system is ok.
> But somehow I can't boot. It looks like the system trying to find out
> the lost swap.
> I've already created a new swap partition and changed the /etc/fstab
> so the swap will refer to my new swap ( edited with Knoppix ).
> But still the system seems trying to look for the old swap.
> So anyone knows a quick way to make my system knows my new swap ?
> Grub is used a boot manager.

Boot with init=/bin/sh.  You'll get a shell with / mount ro, only.

Then you can check /etc/fstab, then run the init scripts one at a time.

Doug.

Well..re-installing ;-)
 

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