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Re: migrate / to new partition; wants to use old mount points



On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:46:36PM +0000, David Claughton wrote:
> Ric Otte <ric <at> otte.ucsc.edu> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Is there any place besides /etc/fstab that indicates what partitions to
> > mount?  I changed /etc/mtab, but that didn't help, and can't find any other
> > places that might be diverting the boot process to the old drive.
> > 
> > Any advice would be appreciated.  Thanks.
> > Ric
> > 
> 
> Could be that it's nothing to do with mount points - if the boot process is "7-
> 8 screens in" as you say it's probably processing the scripts in /etc/init.d.  
> I would try greping in there for 'sda10' to see if anything is directly trying 
> to access the old device node directly.
> 
> Cheers,  Dave.

Good idea.  I counted and I was able to go back 12 screens (using
shift page up) which indicates I was quite a ways into the boot
process.  I grepped for sda10 and even sda, but couldn't find anything
in /etci/init.d
Thanks,
Ric



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