On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 16:14, dan1 wrote:
I tried your suggestion, but it can't even start linux in single mode. I think that there is a mount problem, but I have double checked the fstab file seated on the backup drive and it seems fine to me. Therefore I can't understand what prevents the mount to be made properly. Would the vmlinuz or initrd images be dependent of the md or hd filesystem type or are they exactly the same for both ? Else what other file should I touch that involves the mounting operation ?
If you boot the install CD in rescue mode, does it find the installed system correctly and mount it under /mnt/sysimage? You mentioned an attempt to set up md devices before - are the partition types set to ext3 in fdisk? Are you sure you have the correct contents in /boot/grub/grub.conf (the one in /etc is a symlink that can be broken if things aren't mounted as expected when you modify it).