On 9/24/05, Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Here was the problem. The new grub installation has misprepared those entries. title Debian GNU/Linux i386 (on dev hdb1) root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 initrd /boot/initrd.img boot I have corrected the third line as kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 thank you all very much.. > > 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 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDNW8k4RQe7Exc22QRAuLVAJ4xktuM39hzRCRRxz+NwtfR09v7bQCeOhtg > /rdYXIKXIfdB/9rryESFsjA= > =Dmfq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >
