On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 11:01:49AM -0400, Kudret Güler wrote: > Hi all, yesterday I had only one hard drive. > hda1 / #debian installation A > hda5 /home > > Today this hard drive is hdb with the same structure. On hda there is > grub installed pointing to debian installation A as well as other > entries. When I try to load debian installation A, currently I am > having kernel panic after an error: "VFS can't find ext3 filesystem on > dev hda1" > > Question: Which files should I edit to let linux know that it is on hdb now? > I already edited fstab and mtab > thank you
Hi, AFAIK, you don't need to edit /etc/mtab as it is created/updated by the system. You need to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst in your /dev/hda, which you obviously have already done, so make sure the entry for the hdb is correctly set. My hdb-entry looks like this: title Debian GNU/Linux i386 root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 initrd /boot/initrd.img boot If you copy/paste this, edit the '/boot/vmlinuz' to point to the correct name in your hdb-kernel as well as the '/boot/initrd.img', if you use initrd. If you don't have initrd-image, then delete the initrd-line. HTH Simo -- :r ~/.signature
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