FIXED Re: [olug] *urgent* Suse 9.1 pro boot issue (md related?)

[Eric Lusk]

Yep, it's alway the ID10T errors that are the worst :)
--- Eric Penne <epenne at olug.org> wrote:

> I did it!  Holy buckets of cat piss!  Nobody could
> have helped me because
> it was my own stupid fault!
> 
> Thinking back long and hard about what I did the
> last time I logged into
> Suse.  I updated the lilo.conf file with Yast to
> include the new Windows
> partition.  I had it automatically update lilo.  I
> accepted what it gave
> me.
> 
> It didn't add root = "/dev/system/root" to the
> lilo.conf file.  I added it
> and all is good in the life of Eric again.
> 
> now I just need to patch my orinoco sources to work
> with kismet.
> 
> Thank you for the help.
> Eric Penne
> 
> > Good thought!  Could somebody post their fstab for
> the basic partitions.
> > I can't seem to find any glaring errors in mine.
> >
> > my fstab first line:
> > /dev/system/root   /   reiserfs   acl,user_xattr  
> 1 1
> >
> > Is it possible that it can't find /dev/system/root
> because initrd got
> > messed up and isn't loading the device mapper
> modules?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Eric Penne
> >
> >> first thing is to check your fstab file from the
> >> command line.  Sounds like it has found an
> invalid
> >> mount point somehow and is giving up trying to
> access
> >> it.
> >> Also check your system logs to see if they give a
> clue
> >> as to what is wrong, but if it's listing valid
> mount
> >> points, that typically points to an invalid entry
> in
> >> the fstab or mtab files.
> >> If all else fails, you can often reinstall
> without
> >> formatting the partitions, saving your data but
> still
> >> fixing the issue.
> >> --- Eric Penne <epenne at olug.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I believe that my Suse installation is hosed. 
> This
> >
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