[H-GEN] I don't understand this.

[Ewan Edwards]

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On Thursday 15 May 2003 03:33 pm, Robert Kearey wrote:

> > I have a RH73 box that has developed some sort of filesystem error on
> > /dev/hda5 such that at boot time a filesystem check is automatically
> > started. Unfortunately, the check only gets 4.5% through before a kernel
> > panic with a message something about not handling a null pointer
> > reference.
>
> [snip]
>
> Boot from a CD into resuce mode using
>
> linux rescue

Why didn't I think of that.  Doh!

I'm still really curious to know why the RH9 system mount /dev/hde1 instead of 
/dev/hda1 on the root directory.



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