FW: Bit of an emergency!!

James Zuelow wrote:
> Blake Eggemeyer wrote:
>> think its 0x82, just typed the error up fast
>=20
> You mounted your HDD and retrieved your data, so you didn't
> accidentally reformat your partition to be swap. That's good.=20
>=20
> Is your / partition really on /dev/hda2?
>=20
> IIRC the default partition for the Debian (and Ubuntu) installer is
> to use /dev/hda1 for / and /dev/hda2 for swap.=20
>=20
> That would be consistent with the error you're seeing. It doesn't
> explain why both the grub root entry and the kernel root=3D entry =
would
> both have been changed though. If they're wrong, mount the drive,
> change the entries, chroot to it and run update-grub. =20
>=20
> Also if you mount the drive again, what does /etc/fstab say? You're
> getting a grub error so this is an outside chance, but if /etc/fstab
> is wrong (say it says /etc/sda2 instead of /etc/hda2) you can still
> boot*, but you will build unbootable initrd images. Maybe the kernel
> install took a peek at /etc/fstab as well. =20
>=20
> James Zuelow....................CBJ MIS (907)586-0236
> Network Specialist...Registered Linux User No. 186591
>=20
> *try it, it's fun! Just remember to change it back again.

Yah, I did the same thing - didn't hit reply to all.

James Zuelow....................CBJ MIS (907)586-0236
Network Specialist...Registered Linux User No. 186591
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Received on Tue Dec 19 18:30:54 2006