Slackware 12.2 won't mount

hungrypumpkin · 09-21-2009, 02:56 AM

So, initially my partitioning table was:
/dev/sda1 - ext3
/dev/sda2 - swap
/dev/sda3 - ext3 (slackware)
/dev/sda4 - swap

Then I deleted the swap on /dev/sda2 and it changed the table to:
/dev/sda1 - ext3
/dev/sda2 - ext3 (slackware)
/dev/sda3 - swap

My boot manager (GRUB) lays within /dev/sda1 and I changed menu.lst to boot the new partition and it does so perfectly. While slackware's booting it will come up with a mount error as it's trying to mount /dev/sda3 which is now a swap, what do I modify to get it to mount /dev/sda2 instead?

mobinskariya · 09-21-2009, 03:05 AM

did you change your slackware entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst??

vonbiber · 09-21-2009, 03:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hungrypumpkin

So, initially my partitioning table was:
/dev/sda1 - ext3
/dev/sda2 - swap
/dev/sda3 - ext3 (slackware)
/dev/sda4 - swap

Then I deleted the swap on /dev/sda2 and it changed the table to:
/dev/sda1 - ext3
/dev/sda2 - ext3 (slackware)
/dev/sda3 - swap

My boot manager (GRUB) lays within /dev/sda1 and I changed menu.lst to boot the new partition and it does so perfectly. While slackware's booting it will come up with a mount error as it's trying to mount /dev/sda3 which is now a swap, what do I modify to get it to mount /dev/sda2 instead?

2 things you need to check after your changes:
first) in /boot/grub/menu.lst
all entries like root(hd0,2) should be changed to root(hd0,1)

second) in your /etc/fstab if you had entries for
/dev/sda3
you should change to /dev/sda2