[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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