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My / was on hdc1
I wanted to ad a hdd1 to /usr/local

So I did fdisk (No problem)
Forget to run mkfs (Don't know yet if this is a problem)
mount  /dev/hdd1 /mnt/tmp
Copied my /usr/local to /mnt/tmp
(Still no problem)

Then I wanted to transfer my hdc and hdd to hda and hdc.
So I changed my fstab but forget linux.conf
I rebooted the machine and change the IDE connector.

Now I am stuck: On both IDE port I can't boot
On Primary IDE LILO can't mount root  fs "Kernel panic: VFS: unable to
mount root fs on 16:01"
On Secondary IDE I can get a little further: Swap partition can't be
mounted and also root partition dosen't exist but, I can enter the root
pwd "for maintenance"
That is great, I can see all my files!!!
The problem is that the file system is read only...

Is there any body that can tel me how to put the file system in RW?

(I have tried umount and mount, but it seems that we are not a this
point yet in the boot sequence...)

Thanks for the answer!

Francois Guimond

Quote:>mount  /dev/hdd1 /mnt/tmp

Quote:>Then I wanted to transfer my hdc and hdd to hda and hdc.
>So I changed my fstab but forget linux.conf

Quote:>Now I am stuck: On both IDE port I can't boot
>On Primary IDE LILO can't mount root  fs "Kernel panic: VFS: unable to
>mount root fs on 16:01"
>On Secondary IDE I can get a little further: Swap partition can't be
>mounted and also root partition dosen't exist but, I can enter the root
>pwd "for maintenance"
>That is great, I can see all my files!!!
>The problem is that the file system is read only...

>Is there any body that can tel me how to put the file system in RW?

(You can't umount the root partition, and mount will only work there
with the remount option.)

Your best bet is probably to tell the Linux kernel where your root
filesystem really is, though. If the entry for Linux in your lilo.conf
is 'linux', then typing 'linux root=/dev/hda1' (assuming you moved your
root filesystem to /dev/hda1?) should work well enough to let you get
things put back together.

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