<div>Thanks Tim, heres some more information, fdisk -l returns:</div>
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<div>Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB</div>
<div>device Boot Start End Blocks ID System</div>
<div>/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux</div>
<div>/dev/sda2 14 268 2048287+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris</div>
<div>/dev/sda3 269 24321 193205722+ 8e linux LVM</div>
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<div>Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB</div>
<div>device Boot Start End Blocks ID System</div>
<div>/dev/sdb1 * 1 1530 12289693+ 83 Linux</div>
<div>/dev/sdb2 1531 24321 183068707+ 8e Linux LVM</div>
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<div>I think what I did was put /boot and swap on the first drive, then / on the other, probably thinking that it might help performance, the rest was LVM so I could change things around.</div>
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<div>I'm new to this, not sure where grub ends, so i'll describe again. When I power on it brings up the GNU Grub version 0.97 and allows me to select which FC I want to boot 2.6.20 or 2.6.19. I let it load .20, then:
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<div>Booting 'Fedora Core (2.6.20......)'</div>
<div>root (hd0,0).... some more things that seem to go ok...</div>
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<div>Then it says "Uncompressing Linux.... Ok, booting the kernel."</div>
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<div>I'm assuming that means its fstab i'll have to mess with? I didnt mention it, but those several errors that I get after the first two lines are 'No such file or directory' errors.</div>
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<div>Just want to be more specific since I'll be messing with files i don't know anything about (yet). Is there anything else I could let you know? Should I start with the fstab changes you suggested?<br> </div>
<div>Thanks for your time man, really appreciate it.</div>
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<div>Peter</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim</b> <<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 19:05 -0400, Peter Ebert wrote:<br>> First off, I'm running Fedora Core 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6
<br>><br>> I had everything running semi smothly on a new intel board, found out<br>> that my cd problems were caused by the board, so I swapped for an old<br>> abit aw8-max, everything else remaining the same.
<br>><br>> When I tried to boot, after "Red Hat Nash version 5.1.19.0.3 starting"<br>> I get the error:<br>> "Unable to access resume device (LABEL=SWAP-sda2)"<br>> "mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'"
<br>> Then a series of errors that I assume are a result of not being able<br>> to mount these partitions?<br><br>Depending on how things were previously connected, taking all drives<br>into consideration, you might need to fiddle with the device names in
<br>the grub.conf and/or fstab files.<br><br>GRUB's root(hd0,0) starts counting from zero from the first hard drive<br>it finds. That's drives, not ports, it doesn't count unused ports. If<br>you've got past the point of the GRUB menu, and Linux is starting to
<br>boot, with *all* the starting .... messages, not just an attempting to<br>start sort of message, that part of things is set right. So it's not<br>grub.conf that you need to play with, probably the fstab file.<br>
<br>Linux is different from GRUB, it counts devices from the ports, whether<br>or not a drive is plugged into them (/dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/sda, etc.,<br>being predictable port locations, they don't change). You could *try*
<br>changing any fstab swap lines from using a label to a device name.<br><br>e.g. from LABEL=SWAP-sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0<br> to /dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0<br><br>Having a BIOS that lets you swap boot drive order can muddy the waters,
<br>as some things may seem to be different devices pre-boot than post-boot.<br><br>The resume message means the system couldn't find the drive partition to<br>resume from, or didn't find anything on that partition to resume from
<br>(it's not waking up from a hibernation). The first part may be due to<br>your labelling not being readable, or the partition device may need<br>redoing in fstab (sda becoming sdb, or something like that).<br><br>
I seem to recall the unable to find /dev/root being related to the root=<br>part of the kernel line in the grub.conf file.<br><br>title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2925.fc6)<br> root (hd0,0)<br> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2925.fc6
ro root=LABEL=/<br> initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2925.fc6.img<br><br>You might want to try the same trick and use root=/dev/sda(whatever)<br>instead of root=LABEL=/.<br><br>All in all, this sounds a little like you've got GRUB installed on
<br>drive, but the OS on the other.<br><br>> I put in the install disk I used, and run "linux rescue" it<br>> succesfully detects the install, and i think it mounts ok (little<br>> fuzzy on what that means exactly but I didnt get any errors geting to
<br>> the rescue shell) When I get to a command line i type the only<br>> command i can think of "fdisk -l" and see the drives detected<br>> correctly and the partitions on them listed correctly as well.
<br><br>You probably should have posted that information, here.<br><br><br>--<br>(This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's<br>important to the thread.)<br><br>Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
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