-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 April 2004 21:50, John Fleming wrote: > Can anyone see how this got my boot partition off the mount list?? The That's not what happened. Your /etc/fstab was still requesting to stick the partition labelled "/boot" at the mountpoint /boot as intended. But when at boot-time it went looking on the devices to find out which partition was so labelled, it found not one but two partitions wandering around your system with that label (one being the legitimate one on /dev/hda1 and we suspect an unintentional one on /dev/sda1). Then it threw its hands up in the air, made the log message and mounted neither, since it could not determine which was the one you wanted. > flash disk only had a website on it, i.e. html files and images. Maybe > when I first plugged it in, before making the udpfstab change, it got > marked with a /boot? Did you format your USB drive with ext2 or ext3? If so then thanks the Alexander's great tip about e2label, you can get a definitive answer to your question. Stick the USB drive in, and try e2label /dev/sda1 to see what that partition is labelled as. If it is vfat.... then I dunno. - -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) iD8DBQFAha3kjKeDCxMJCTIRAu4TAJ9b1pegytu5DAeM5PKlO2HO0UlLkgCfSGP5 UNM0Mp6C/GSRA65cHa0ZWn0= =m7kH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
