Re: new kernel fail

Richard B. Johnson
2003-01-23T12:44:14Z

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Yao Minfeng wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> I am rather new to Linux, but really want to have a try. I am running RedHat
> 7.2 with the kernel of
> 2.4.7-10. I just compiled the 2.4.12 and 2.4.16 Kernel, however, when I
> login to the system, I found that
>
> 1)
>
> Login: root
> Passwd:
>
> bash: id: Command not found
> bash: id: Command not found
> bash: id: Command not found
>
> [: Too many arguments
>
> ...
>
>
> 2) all the files under /home, /usr are missing, this happens both for 2.4.12
> and 2.4.16, but when I login back to 2.4.7-10, the files are there again, I
> can't figure it out.
>
> Any help is welcome.
>
> Thanks.
>
Looks like the order of your file partitions (or labels) got
changed between kernel versions so that your 'slices' are not
being mounted.

do `df` to see what got mounted. Try to mount the other paritions,
first under /mnt, then later at there correct place after to
inspect them under /mnt to see which is which.

After you have it all sorted out, change the entries in
/etc/fstab to be correct for the next boot.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
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