Thanks for the help, got home and tried a few ideas these are my "start up" lines in grub root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-5-386 root= /dev/hd1 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-5-386 savedefault boot (I may have added/left out a space after transposing this via hardcopy) I have tried changing hd0 to hd1 in the first line, this starts the boot process, but hangs on another error (that i forgot to write down) looks like I will see you guys on Monday..... -----Original Message----- From: Matt Brown [mailto:matt(a)mattb.net.nz] Sent: Wed 2005-06-08 10:35 To: Waikato Linux Users Group Cc: Subject: Re: [wlug] boot problems On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 10:31 +1200, zcat wrote:

OK, on digging a little further, /dev/hda1 is type 0x7 which is NTFS. That's almost certainly not your root partition, so I'll change my advice.

Boot a live CD and find out where your root partition really is. Mount it rw and edit the grub or lilo config appropriately (and reinstall lilo if that's what you use) and THEN the box should boot normally.

Note that if you're using grub (which Ubuntu does by default) you don't need to mount rw to fix problems. simply push 'e' on the line that is about to be booted and you'll be able to edit it. This will allow you to try booting with different root partitions /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3 etc until you find the correct one. Once you done that and booted up ubuntu successfully then you can modify the grub config on the hard disk. Yet another reason why grub is much better than lilo :) Regards -- Matt Brown matt(a)mattb.net.nz Mob +64 275 611 544 www.mattb.net.nz _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug