upgraded motherboard, hda (/boot & swap1) has interesting problem

[Mike Odegard]

Ralph Shumaker wrote:

> Mike Odegard wrote:
>
>> Ralph Shumaker wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I did not really know what to do, so I knew that I just needed to 
>>> get booted so that I would have acces to KPLUG.  So, as root, I put 
>>> "#" in front of the line for that swap partition (hda2) and 
>>> rebooted.  This time was the same except for no complaint about 
>>> swap.  This time, I chose control-D (thinking that "continue" meant 
>>> "continue"), which surprisingly rebooted.  As root, I put "#" in 
>>> front of the line for LABEL=/boot... and rebooted.
>>>
>>> I am now up and running, presenting this strange problem to the list.
>>>
>>> I'm just not sure how to go about fixing it.
>>>
>> It sounds like you have some partition conflicts.
>> If the system is booting now, perhaps you could reply with current 
>> /etc/fstab, and the output of fdisk print for each drive.
>
>
> Happy to oblige:
>
> [rafael at localhost rafael]$ cat /etc/fstab
> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    
> defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/av               /av                     ext3    
> defaults        1 2
> #LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    
> defaults        1 2
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  
> gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none                    /proc                   proc    
> defaults        0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   
> defaults        0 0
> #/dev/hda2              swap                    swap    
> defaults        0 0
> /dev/hde1               swap                    swap    
> defaults        0 0
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    
> noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
>
> [rafael at localhost rafael]$
>
> [root at localhost root]# fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/hde: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 158816 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
>
>   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hde1   *         1       260    131008+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/hde2          4162     24966  10485720   83  Linux
> /dev/hde3         24967    158816  67460400   83  Linux
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 245 MB, 245571584 bytes
> 16 heads, 31 sectors/track, 967 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 496 * 512 = 253952 bytes
>
> Disk /dev/hda doesn't contain a valid partition table
>
> [root at localhost root]#
>
>
Since /dev/hda hard drive appears corrupted, consider removing it.
While it's tempting to use it, it's extremely slow compared to the 80 GB 
disk, and used as swap will really slow down your computer.

Also, consider replacing the "LABEL" items with /dev/hde names.
The command 'df' should show the matching dev names for / and /av.