On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 18:34:56 -0800 Martin Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all. This problem has had me pulling my hair out for the last few days. > > I just moved around my partitions so I could get rid of Windows. My > Linux used to be on /dev/sda5 and Windows on /dev/sda1, but I created > a new partition where Windows had been and copied all my files there > with Knoppix and cp -rfv --preserve (except /proc because that would > never copy since some of the files aren't strictly "real" I guess). > Anyway, I then booted into my copy on /dev/sda1 and it worked fine. I > then deleted /dev/sda5 to give me more space and when I boot again > into /dev/sda1 it gives me an error. > > Waiting for /sys/block/sda/sda5/dev No such file or directory > > Well, of course it can't find it: sda5 has been deleted and doesn't > exist. It seems that whatever reference the old partition had was > copied over and thus it's still looking for sda5 even though it > doesn't exist. I tried moving /sys/block/sda/sda5 to a temporary > directory hoping that would stop it from looking for it, but no luck. > O also removed all references to sda5 in /etc/fstab and that didn't > help either. > > > Btw, I found this link which from someone who had my same problem: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg01406.html > But I couldn't figure out how it applied to me, and I can't really > uninstall yaird unless I can't boot into my system! :P This post refers to an error that occurred with the upgrade to 2.6.14 kernel and yaird. The ide modules were not setup properly so the kernel couldn't see the harddrives and couldn't boot properly. This doesn't sound like your problem so much. Did you properly configure and re-run your bootloader after your move above? To work on the system, you need to boot from a live-cd and chroot into your broken system. At a guess I'd say you need to dpkg-reconfigure your kernel and then re-configure and re-run your boot loader. .02 A > > Any ideas on what's keeping it from booting still? > Thanks all :).
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