-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 April 2004 15:10, John Fleming wrote: > OK Andy, I have that > mount: mount: LABEL=/boot duplicate - not mounted > > So, please tell this newbie -exactly- what to do please. As I said before, > I've got some networking things going, but you should assume I know nothing Well your situation is good, a fix is reasonably simple. What I did was to edit /etc/fstab, which is basically a list telling Linux what to do with filesystems that might be on your various drives. Here is the kind of thing you will see somewhere in there at the moment: LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 This is telling mount to find a partition labelled with the name "/boot" (LABEL=/boot), and mount it at mountpoint /boot, using ext3 filesytem. The problem you have is that more than one partitions on drives hooked up to your system have got that /boot label tagged onto them, it doesn't know which one to use, so it is giving up and mounting nothing at /boot. - From your partition table, it looks strongly to me like your real boot partition is at /dev/hda1. So all you need to do is edit the /etc/fstab about LABEL=/boot to read instead there /dev/hda1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 keep the rest of the file the same. You'll need to be root when you edit /etc/fstab. Make sure it's right, save, then that's it, reboot. Tip for easy editing if you don't know vi but are up in X, open a terminal window, type su - <give the root password> kedit /etc/fstab If you're a gnome guy, use gedit instead of kedit. Then you can edit the file very easily as root. - -Andy - -- Automatic actions for USB cameras, cardreaders, memory sticks, MP3 players http://warmcat.com/usbautocam -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAhU7bjKeDCxMJCTIRAkpoAJ9PjJtaKPVrKkZ2bP+3FWPJJg2XIgCfXYKQ 1L2akTjE1S1iOdDAMO0Tccg= =heiK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
