One more interesting thing to note is that qtparted under knoppix can see everything, no trouble, strange since parted can't. So using the /dev/hdb1 format I can see where each bit it. Thanks for the help so far Phil Duncan On 6/14/05, Duncan Lithgow <dlithgow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I presume the following is a quote, at least I made it look like one... > > Yes, it was a quote > > > Very difficult to give detailed help without system details such as > > "fdisk -l" output with notations as to what is on which partition, > > e2label output from relevant partitions, and fstab. The thread you > > cited gives some clues/suggestions as will as the [mis]quoted message > > above. > > > > In general, if you can boot to rescue mode, use e2label to display/fix > > ext3 partition labels to avoid conflicts, and fix /boot/grub/grub.conf > > and /etc/fstab to match; OR use device names rather than labels > > in /boot/grub/grub.conf and /etc/fstab. > > Well, digging around got me no-where...: > > # fdisk /dev/hdb > Unable to open /dev/hdb > > I get the same for /dev/hda. And fdisk -l gives: > > # fdisk -l > cannot open /proc/partitions > > When I tried the same on Knoppix I get: > > knoppix@1[knoppix]$ fdisk -l > Can't open /dev/hda > Can't open /dev/hdb > > So let's try e2label: > > # e2label /dev/hdb > e2label: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hdb > Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock > > Ok, what about parted? > > knoppix@1[knoppix]$ parted > Error: No device found > Retry/Cancel? > > Anyone have any ideas on what I should try now? > > Please help me get this straight... > - I can't have two partitions with the label '/' (even though Ubuntu > starts fine!) > - I therefore should change one of the '/' labels to something else - > what could that be? > - After I've changed it I need to edit 'grub.conf' and '/etc/fstab'. > Since it's tricky for me to even read those files just now, could you > give me an example of which bit to edit? In 'grub.conf' I think it's > something like root=Label='/' should change to root='/dev/hdb1 and > something pretty similar in fstab. > > Am I getting the idea of this problem? > > Duncan >
