Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi!, > > ok, I messed up with my potato system. It is a dual boot system, windoze + > debian. Windoze was in hda1 and the root filesystem of debian in hda2. I > needed to increase the windoze partition. I used partition magic for doing > it. > But in order to keep the debian's root filesystem within the 2GB boot limit > I > swapped the windoze and debian's root partition. So that, now the debian's > root partition is hda1 and windoze is hda2. I use a boot manager, so I can > choose from what partition boot the system. But I can't boot debian now. I > guess > it is because the /etc/fstab file still contains the old information > regarding the partitions. I think that the solution is to edit the /etc/fstab > file and write the correct new partition information. But I don't > have a boot floppy. How can I make a generic boot floppy in order to boot > debian and modify the /etc/fstab file? my system can't boot from cd. I will > make the boot floppy from another debian machine. >
You could use tomsrtbt. You can install it to a floppy from linux or from Windows. Just boot it up, mount /dev/hda1 and edit /etc/fstab. You will need a rudimentary knowledge of vi to do the editing. http://www.toms.net/rb/ tomsrtbt has saved me several times. It's a permanent part of my toolbox. -- David Raeker-Jordan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Harrisburg, PA, USA
