booting problems with mandriva 2006

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jcasanue : 05/12/05 12:07 PM : Incident created -   Hi, I installed mandriva 2006 on an IDE hard disk (hda), with the root () found in hda5, with reiserFS. Everything was fine, and worked properly. I then added another IDE hard disk as master (hda), and so the disk where mandriva is installed becomes hdb, and so the root () is now in hdb5. I changed the grub config to point to hdb5, and grub works well, and boot mandriva. But, as mandriva is booting up, I get an error when it tryes to mount the filesystem, saying that it cannot find it in devhda5 (cause it is now in hdb5!!!!). How do I fix that?? thanks a lot Juan
Linegod_7611 : 06/12/05 06:23 PM : Reply received -   You forgot to edit '/etc/fstab' and change where each partition is mounted. A quick method to fix this would be to use a 'Live' Distro, mount /dev/hdb5, edit '/etc/fstab' and change all references of 'hda' to 'hdb', save it, then boot as normal. You could also remove the 'new' drive, change grub to boot from /dev/hda5, edit '/etc/fstab' as above, change grub back to boot from /dev/hdb5, shutdown, reconnect the new drive and reboot. ------------- Note: If this answer resolves your problem, please remember to close this incident.
jcasanue : 07/12/05 01:39 PM : More info provided -   Hi, thanks a lot for the help, it works perfectly now... Juan
jcasanue : 07/12/05 01:40 PM : Incident closed -

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