addr Posted December 17, 2006 Report Share Posted December 17, 2006 I am having boot up stop after 'Starting Hal daemon....................[OK]' It then opens the CD tray. I must have caused whatever this is by trying to resize an extended partition. Qtparted wouldn't do it but must have changed something. I went in with a live CD and all the partitions 'appear' intact and the numbering hasn't changed or anything like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 17, 2006 Report Share Posted December 17, 2006 When the system tries to boot, press esc and then type in linux 1 Then navigate to /etc/fstab edit it and remove all cdrom references. Now reboot ( init 6). Any better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addr Posted December 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2006 No, that didn't work. Here is my fdisk for this drive: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1216 9765625 83 Linux /dev/sda2 1216 1338 976562+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 1338 4678 26829101+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 4679 12165 60139327+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 4679 5871 9582741 83 Linux /dev/sda6 5872 7086 9759456 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7 7087 12165 40797036 83 Linux Mandy is on sda5(/),sda6 and sda7. It's grub is on sda5. Mandriva /etc/fstab after removal of CD references:- /dev/sda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=utf8,sync 0 0 /dev/hdd2 /mnt/hdd2 ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdd5 /mnt/hdd5 ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ext3 users,noauto,exec 1 2 /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 ext3 users,noauto,exec 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 Since Mandriva is on logical partitions inside sda4(extended), the one I was trying to resize to the end of the drive, do you think the info on sda4 is corrupted? Perhaps a re-install of Mandy's Grub is required? If so I'll need help. I can get into the file system but I don't know how to re-install Grub. Sandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted December 17, 2006 Report Share Posted December 17, 2006 Why two swap partitions? What happens if you comment one of them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
addr Posted December 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2006 No change. I commented out sda6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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