Re: [SLUG] lost link between /boot and /

[James Wilkinson <jamesw@nospam.student.unsw.edu.au>]

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Ben Donohue generated:

>how do i re-link the /boot partition to the / partition? or how do you
>get the /boot partition to find the / partition?
>i've edited the lilo.conf but no go as lilo.conf is in the / partition
>which *i guess* can't be found by the kernel from /boot.
>i hope this makes sense!

Let me clarify:  you have your /boot in, say, /dev/hda2, which is
located below 1024 cyls.  Before you deleted the partition, it was
called (in linux, anyway) /dev/hda5, and your root partition was on
/dev/hda7.

What I think has happened is that in deleting the partitions, they
become renumbered, so what was once your root partition on /dev/hda7, is
now called /dev/hda6

You might have to boot off a rescue floppy and make the necessary
changes to /etc/fstab, and possibly making lilo aware of where the root
partition is located now, too.

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jamesw

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