24 Apr
2004
24 Apr
'04
11:11 p.m.
What kind of error messages did you get during the new
install and at
what point in the process? What is the current partitioning structure of
the disk (after all that happened)? You can find out by doing "fdisk -l"
from the rescue prompt, I guess.
one - which I can't remember the wording but it was basically akin to can't
read from drive hda
It could be that the new install did not update grub
(who knows why) to
point to the newly installed system and you are still trying to boot the
old one. Hmmmm, if fact that could be the case if you have duplicated
labels. Check the labels of the partitions that are supposed to be the
"/" partition (you should have two if I understand correctly what you
did). If one of your root partitions is /dev/hda2 then:
e2label /dev/hda2
should output "/"
interesting - e2label /dev/hda2 - which I believe is the root, gives me the
error about a too high revision (ext3/ext2 thing)
e2label /dev/hda - same error - hda0 (which may not exist) same, hda1 same -
hda3 it give:
/boot
there's two drives in this machine - so I tried
e2label /dev/hdb
same error
e2label /dev/hdb2 gives me
/