25 Apr
2004
25 Apr
'04
1:10 a.m.
So this is
probably where the new install is located. Did you try
/dev/hdb1? There must be one. What is the output of:
fdisk -l /dev/hda
fdisk -l /dev/hdb
I believe I tried e2label /dev/hdb1 and got the same error as on hda2 - but
not SURE - the machine is currently off - at some point I tried a reboot and
it got stuck (and old oddity) and I turned it off for the time being as I am
leaving shortly...
Anyway, any grub experts out there? Probably grub
needs to be pointed to
/dev/hdb1 as the root partition, right?
an interesting problem is GETTING to grub. I did find a grub.conf - I think
in /dev/hdb2/etc - somewhere or other - but when I tried to edit it, it
couldn't get it open
I wish I knew the options at that floppy's boot: prompt because I sort of
guess at things to try - like I tried booting and giving that prompt "linux
boot=/dev/hdb3 and such and init= and root= and a few different things. at
this point it's always the same, since I first booted up using "linux
single", it now has always booted and not done the kernel panic, but given
me the filesystem error and dropped me to a shell.