[SWLUG] 2 Help! problems booting

[Neil Jones]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 21:05, Jonathan Wright wrote:
> neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk wrote:
> > I made no deliberate software changes what so ever.
> > I just swapped the drives.
> 
> You said that drive 3 was for more Linux data, so you must have mounted 
> it within Linux. Did it have a permanent mount line in fstab, or did you 
> mount it on the fly when you needed it?
> 
> I think you may be having a problem with the system automatically trying 
> to mount the drive, but can't. Plus, depending on the last two values of 
> the line in fstab can define what the system should do if there's an error.

Thanks everybody,

Yes it was the line in fstab, I took it out, after taking a copy of the
file to make restoring it easier, and everything is fine.

I should have thought of this but at one point I had put hard disk 3
back without its power lead and I thought I had tried that combination.

I now need to put disk 3 back in. This is all part of a distro upgrade.
I am actually trying to improve one of my websites. I keep needing some
bit of extra software or hardware in order to get it working.
The last problem was my DVD drive not reading things properly. So I
replaced it. I need eventually to burn DVDs so went for a burner.

Neil Jones
Neil at njwones.demon.co.uk