hey guys... check this out, so one day im chillin with SuSE 9.0. then i get the great idea to delete my secondary linux partition which had nothing on it. the partition i deleted was hda7, my linux root dir is hda8. therefore, my root partition became known as hda7. so i reinstalled GRUB and set it to boot hda7 instead of the non existant hda8. now when i boot i can only go into a read only, matinance mode with no X. so i tried to re-created my partiton. but the partiton i created is known as hda8. so this solves nothing. is there a way to get partion hda7 to become hda8 and visa versa without formatting? thanks in advance.

did you edit /etc/fstab to reflect the change??

hmm.... could you please tell me how to edit it in the console? im too use to doing everything in the GUI.

su and then if you have nano text editor type nano -w /etc/fstab, if you have another text editor and know it's name, substitute if for nano.