How do I correct FSTAB?

Ted Quick rim_molder at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 18 15:24:50 UTC 2006


--- Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> Ted Quick wrote:
> 
> > I just installed Kubuntu Edgy in a partition that had my first (somewhat
> > flawed) copy of Kubuntu Dapper in it. I have another (better working) copy
> > of Dapper in a different partition.
> > 
> > Now I can start the new Edgy partition, but have no way to start the
> > earlier Dapper partition since it doesn't appear in the new fstab file. I
> > tried editing the fstab file in Edgy by copying the Dapper fstab into it.
> 
> I think you're looking in the wrong place.  You don't actually have fstab
> available at boot time.  So you want to look at your boot loader.  Are you
> using lilo or grub?
> -- 
> derek

I'm using grub.

Ted Quick
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