[CentOS] What broke my box ??

Sat Feb 21 14:03:35 UTC 2009
Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com>

jkinz at kinz.org wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 06:04:00PM -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
>> CentOS 5.2 64-bit
>>
>> I needed some space.
>>
>> I have a hard drive that had an old Linux install I don't use anymore. 
> 
> Lets call this your auxiliary drive.
> 
>> So I edited /etc/fstab and removed the entries for it (entries I only 
>> needed so I could get data off it).
> 
> Which /etc/fstab did you edit? the one on the auxiliary drive or
> the one on the primary drive? 

They shared a /boot

> 
>> Then I edited /boot/grub.conf and removed the lines to boot it.
> 
> Which grub.conf did you modify? the one on your auxiliary drive
> or the one on your primary drive? 
> 
>> Then I rebooted.
> 
> What drive did you boot from? the auxiliary drive or the primary? 

Primary drive - /boot is a primary partition on /dev/sda