So_it_goes Posted March 31, 2007 Report Share Posted March 31, 2007 Hi Using 2007 Had to swap ide connection for my harddisks. Restarted Got to the dual boot window, where I can selct - linux - xxxx - yyyy - windows Windows works ok. But when I select linux , everything hangs in that window. Tried the third option , and what I could see I had problems with mount/unmont. It seems that I need to tell some boot file/program that I've moved the harddisks. Any ideas/suggestions ? // Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 You'll have to boot a live CD (or the rescue CD = Mandriva first install CD), then login to shell, mount your root partition under the "in-memory" /mnt location, edit /mnt/etc/fstab (change all "hda" with "hdb", and "hdb" with "hda"), and finally "chroot /mnt; /sbin/lilo". I know this is very summarized; I don't know how well you do in Linux. Don't hesitate to ask for advice for any of the above instructions. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
So_it_goes Posted April 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 (edited) Thanks for the reply. I'm used to the basic vi commands and unix CLI's( solaris ). This is my first linux, though edited: /mnt/sbin/lilo ? In the mounted ram-linux I'm running, /sbin/ is a soft link to a tmp directory. // Edited April 2, 2007 by So_it_goes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmanuel_uk Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 (edited) I think you need to tell people which bootloader you are using... for sure if it is grub you can just press e and edit the lines (2 of them) where it says hd(0,x) replace the first 0 by 1 (0=hda, 1=hdb) same with any other info in these same line where hda should become hdb then press b to boot if this work you can then edit /boot/grub/menu.lst LST not 1st Edited April 3, 2007 by emmanuel_uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
So_it_goes Posted April 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 OK How can I tell which booloader I'm using ? emmanuel_uk: Which file, in grub , should I edit 2 lines ? // Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmanuel_uk Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 what does it read first line of the boot? which 2 lines? where it says linux, press e, then only 2 lines will be present... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
So_it_goes Posted April 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 Hi again It seems like you're way ahead of me. You have to help me more, because I don't understand "what does it read first line of the boot?" When I boot from the Rescue-System CD ?? This is how I do it right now: I boot from a CD , where I get a GUI. There I chooseRescue->System mode where I manually mount the harddisks in the Secondary ide position to /mnt. Then I can chose if I want to go to a console so that I can get a cli inteface to access the harddisk info. This is the first place wher I have a cli-prompt. And this is the only way I've found to edit files on my linux partitions. // Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 If you're using Mandriva 2007 and installed with the defaults, then you are using lilo as your bootloader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
So_it_goes Posted April 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 Thanks for the help everyone, if I'll keep getting help like this I'm sure I'm up and running soon. This is by the way written on my 600Mhz 512 MB Dell , with mandriva. The other, non working,machin has more memory and speed. The problem is I don't remeber if I choose lilo or grub( default or not default ). // Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 Try to pay a bit more care to what has been suggested to you. Nobody told you to run "/mnt/sbin/lilo" - simply because it makes no sense at all. You must 1. Use the installation CD, or a liveCD and chroot to the installed system. 2. Run from there vi (or nano, or mc...) and edit /etc/fstab, changing alll references to /dev/hda to /dev/hdb and vice versa 3. Editing /boot/grub/menu.lst OR /etc/lilo.cong in an analogouw way. If one of them does not exist, then you are using the other bootloader. 4. Reinstall bootloader: /sbin/lilo for LILO, or grub --install /dev/hda for GRUB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmanuel_uk Posted April 3, 2007 Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 because I don't understand"what does it read first line of the boot?" When I boot from the Rescue-System CD ?? ok, sorry I confused you You have been offered 2 solutions One with live / rescue cd. The most comprehensive solution Mine, not well explained, + letting you find out and learn a bit more. Have you tinkered and pressed e by now? So when you boot normally from the HD what does it say at the top? if you select linux then press e can you edit the boot command line? if not then you do not have grub and you can forget my suggestion (well most of it) and go with other posters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
So_it_goes Posted April 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 scarecrow: Thanks for how to find out which bootloader. emmanueL_uk: Misunderstandig , as I coudn't boot normal. Thanks anyway theYinYeti: The basics worked. Got everything running now. // Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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