On 9/24/05, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Kudret Güler wrote: > > > 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 > > you do NOT edit /etc/mtab .. leave it alone > > good if you fixed /etc/fstab > > ----------- > > if you're using lilo, edit /etc/lilo.conf to root=/dev/hdb1 > and remove /boot/map > and rerun lilo ( which will create a new /boot/map file ) > > and make 100% sure oyu know how to boot the system from floppy > or cdrom or usb or ?? in case it complains about lilo > > if you're using grub, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst .. > if you have a /etc/grub.conf or /boot/grub/grub.conf, > change it too > > remove /boot/grub/device.map and do grub-install /dev/hda > or leave both of these 2 steps out and see if it still boots > as it should still work since hd0 is still the original /dev/hda > > c ya > alvin > >
Thanks for the quick response. And I am sorry for the confusion. Let me make it clearer. On current hda there is a debian installation B, and it already saw the debian installation A which was on old hda1(new hdb1). Current grub is the grub on debian installation B on current hda. So I guess I do not need to touch any grub conf file in the debian installation A. right? Currently I have undone the change in mtab. fstab is fixed. still having the error.
