1. Can't boot anymore -- ????? HELP!
Hi,
Maybe someone can give me a hint what's wrong:
I was running 2.0.0 on a WD 1.6GB drive in partition 3. I run DOS in partition 1,
and partition 2 is a Linux Swap partition. Everything was groovy.
I got a WD 3.1GB drive. Here's what I did --
1. copied my linux root to another drive 'cp -a /bin /drive', etc, for each
directory in / that isn't a mount point (and not /proc).
2. removed the old drive, put in the new.
3. used DOS to make a DOS partition (number 1, primary, bootable);
used Slackware 3.0 fdisk to make a swap partition (number 2, primary);
used Slackware 3.0 fdisk to make a root partition (number 3, primary);
used Slackware 3.0 fdisk to make an extra partition (number 4, primary)
4. used Slackware 3.0 mke2fs to make filesystems on partitions 3 and 4
5. used Slackware 'cp -a' to copy all of my saved root back to the new partition
3 except for one large directory which I put on partition 4 (no system files
are in this directory).
6. added an fstab entry to mount the new partition
7. ran mkswap on partition 2
8 rebooted, expecting everything to work fine.
Alas, not to be. The system starts OK (I start with DOS and use LOADLIN, using
the same kernel I always use -- and the DOS part is perfectly OK), but just after
the message "mounting root filesystem read-only" everything stops. The console still
responds to keypresses, and Ctrl-Alt-Del reboots the machine, but I never see the
"INIT: version xxx" line to say that INIT has started. The recovered /etc/init matches
the saved one byte-for-byte, according to cmp. Seems to me the system should do exactly
as it did before, except now it mounts one more filesystem on the way up. But something's
bad wrong and I have no idea what it could be.
Any advice is MOST appreciated!
TIA,
Fred A Watkins
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