FIXED Re: [olug] *urgent* Suse 9.1 pro boot issue (md related?)

[Eric Penne]

I did it!  Holy buckets of cat piss!  Nobody could have helped me because
it was my own stupid fault!

Thinking back long and hard about what I did the last time I logged into
Suse.  I updated the lilo.conf file with Yast to include the new Windows
partition.  I had it automatically update lilo.  I accepted what it gave
me.

It didn't add root = "/dev/system/root" to the lilo.conf file.  I added it
and all is good in the life of Eric again.

now I just need to patch my orinoco sources to work with kismet.

Thank you for the help.
Eric Penne

> Good thought!  Could somebody post their fstab for the basic partitions.
> I can't seem to find any glaring errors in mine.
>
> my fstab first line:
> /dev/system/root   /   reiserfs   acl,user_xattr   1 1
>
> Is it possible that it can't find /dev/system/root because initrd got
> messed up and isn't loading the device mapper modules?
>
> Thanks
> Eric Penne
>
>> first thing is to check your fstab file from the
>> command line.  Sounds like it has found an invalid
>> mount point somehow and is giving up trying to access
>> it.
>> Also check your system logs to see if they give a clue
>> as to what is wrong, but if it's listing valid mount
>> points, that typically points to an invalid entry in
>> the fstab or mtab files.
>> If all else fails, you can often reinstall without
>> formatting the partitions, saving your data but still
>> fixing the issue.
>> --- Eric Penne <epenne at olug.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I believe that my Suse installation is hosed.  This
>
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