How do I do it? (altering the mount points)

[Basil Chupin]

On 07/05/10 07:29, John DeCarlo wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au 
> <mailto:blchupin at iinet.net.au>> wrote:
>
>      I guess this is where I now ask if I am missing something here :-) .
>
>     I have a computer which is switched off.
>
>     I switch it on and while the BIOS is being read in I press the CD ROM
>     button and insert the CD containing Gparted and the system boots into
>     Gparted, not Ubuntu.
>
>
> OK, this is totally random, as far as I can tell.  Why would you do 
> this, when you have Ubuntu working?
>
>
>     I then use Gparted's mc to edit the directory tree and fstab to
>     replace
>     all capitalised Windows to lower case windows.
>


Have to correct myself here. Gparted is ONE of the programs which is 
included in the CD called PartedMagic; mc (midnight commander) is 
another app. included in PartedMagic. So, it was PartedMagic which I was 
using: boot into it and then use the various apps. included on it.


>
> Again, totally random.
>
> Remember, when you boot from a CD, you could have different settings 
> than when you boot Ubuntu.  (Which is why Ubuntu and others have been 
> going to UUIDs, because /dev/sda1 might not be the same thing when 
> booting off the hard drive as it is from CD.)
>
>
>     I then exit Gparted, boot the computer and while it is doing this I
>     remove the Gparted CD - and the computer will then boot normally
>     off the
>     HD where the corrections to fstab and the dirctory tree have been made
>     (I know that they have been made because I can see them with mc in
>     Gparted when I again boot with Gparted to re-edit all the lower
>     case to
>     caps so that Ubuntu can boot). 
>
>
> Well, you hope they were made correctly, but you don't *really* know 
> it.  You might have made some mistake in the process.  After all, you 
> weren't running Ubuntu at the time, were you?
>
>     However, Ubuntu does not boot, and from
>     past experience it is "telling" me that it cannot find the partitions
>     mentioned in fstab - or so I think :-) .
>
>
> If you had actually made all the changes while in Ubuntu, you would 
> *know*.  As it is, you can only *hope* you didn't make some error 
> while booting a different OS.
>
>
>     Where am I deluding myself? :-)
>
>
> Well, you don't know for sure what happened, do you?

True, but I'll get to the bottom of it (because I have just a kernel of 
an idea why things didn't quite work out as expected).

> Did you change any permissions on any of the files or directories you 
> changed?  Did you do something else inadvertent while *not running 
> Ubuntu*?

None of these, but as I stated I have an inkling of what occurred.

But, in the meantime, and before I can get back to my "test-bed" again, 
I have done what you suggested which did all the changes while in 
Ubuntu. But even here things didn't quite work smoothly which is what I 
will be testing out on the test-bed. Nevertheless, I did manage to get 
the changes put thru and now I am booting with partitions all named in 
lower case :-) .

BC

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