Subject: Re: installing onto slave IDE drive
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 22 2000 - 22:50:38 MST
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Jim Potter wrote:
> OK Hollis, I've changed my fstab file to reflect the master -> slave
> jumper change (hda -> hdb). This still doesn't boot as a slave drive,
Explain "doesn't boot". What is the root device you've specified in your
yaboot.conf?
> and now it won't boot as the master drive, either; it finds the
> incorrect fstab file and tries to mount swap and root on hdb.
>
> I've run fsck.
Clearly you're not suffering from data corruption...
> How, Exactly, Does One Change Back The Fstab File In A Read-Only
> FileSystem, So That The System Will Boot?
mount -o remount,rw /
The rest will just come to you... :)
-Hollis
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