Boot stops

[addr]

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.

[scarecrow]

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?

[addr]

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

[scarecrow]

Why two swap partitions?

What happens if you comment one of them?

[addr]

No change. I commented out sda6.