linux on start-up drops me into read only system :(

[anton]

Hello,

well , I've upgraded my MB, of course hdds changed ... so linux won't boot ... and I've found what I need to change ( at least one of the things) is a swap patrition location ...but on start-up linux drops me into read only file system, so I can't change anything :(

so, how can I change?

with what command can I create boot disk ?

Do I need to change anything else , besides the location of swap ?

thx :)

[anton]

anybody ? pleeeaasseee :)

[s1nn]

there is a string you can type for lilo that will give a barebones defualt kernel and shell search through the post and it is in there sorry i dont remeber it has been awhile--

[s1nn]

not finding that lilo string that topic may have been deleted-

[drashkeev]

When you are in the system, if you see the bash prompt type:

mount -o rw,remount /

followed by enter. This will make your partition readable. If you are using lilo and know the letter of the HD, you can type at the boot prompt: [name of your kernel] root=/dev/hd[whatever] . This will get you into your partition. Also, swap should not mess up your system as much as you say. I have had to deal with this very problem when I needed to recover a lost password (init=/bin/sh). Concider some alternate troubleshooting.

[anton]

thx about mounting patrition ...

but when I boot , I do make root=/dev/hdc6 (my new location) , but this gives me errors :( ...

thx

[anton]

that's what i get when I try to boot:
"No such device or address while trying to open /dev/hdg6" (dev/hdg6 - my old root patrition)

[anton]

ok, I think I got it working , I just changed the locations of my patritions in mtab and fstab and somewhere else also (don't remember already ;) )

now gotta re-configure lilo , that I can probably handle ;)

thx all : )