[Novalug] Invalid root drive

Matt Bidwell bidwell at dead-city.org
Sat Feb 24 08:06:49 EST 2007


Robert Buchanan wrote:
> I'm running SUSE 9.3 and was attempting to upgrade to SUSE 10.2.  During 
> the upgrade a message appeared stating 'The root partition in /etc/fstab 
> has an invalid root device.  It is currently mounted as /dev/sdb3 but 
> listed as /dev/sda3'. 
> 
> Does anyone know how I can correct this?  The upgrade won't proceed 
> until this is corrected.
> 
> Thanks.
Can you do a ctrl-alt-F2 and get to a shell?  If so
you should be able to vi /etc/fstab and edit what
how things are mounted.  I am curious, is this upgrade
by bootable cd?  I'm sort of assuming that it is.

Matt



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