Re: editing GRUB options

From: Mike Wilson <wilsonmr_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Sun Apr 15 2007 - 17:14:43 CST

Steven Kurylo wrote:
> Most likely, yes. Check the devicemap if hd1 is actually free. If
> you only have one sata drive it will be.

That's the case.

[snip]

> You don't need to edit fstab at all. Just run the mount command.
> fstab is only needed if you want it to mount on system start up, or
> use a shorthand version of the mount command (ie mount /mnt instead of
> mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt)

That's how I thought things should work. However, when attempted here's
the sermon from mount:

mount: special device /dev/hdb1 does not exist
Received on Sun Apr 15 17:14:49 2007

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