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#1 2010-02-23 17:21:06

dham
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Registered: 2010-02-23
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Screwed up my rc.conf. I cannot mount my hard drive

Hey guys.  I screwed up rc.conf.  It seems if I load gdm manually after logging in my mouse and keyboard work.  But if it starts in rc.conf my mouse and keyboard do not work.  It seems I need this

hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
gnome_enable="YES"

according to my installs on virtual box.(it did the same thing).  Not sure why I made the same mistake again.  Anyway I tried booting up the arch live cd and mounting my partition.  I can mount my boot partition fine.  sda1.  I can mount my home partition fine.  sda4.  sda2 is swap.  sda3 is what I need to mount but every time I do it mounts the freaking boot cd.  What am I doing wrong.

fdisk -l comes up with sda1, sda2, sda3, sda4.  There are no other partitions. 

this is my command mount /dev/sda4 /mnt .  This mounts my home partition fine and shows all my files.  mount /dev/sda3 /mnt.  Re mounts the cd.
Thanks for any help.

Last edited by dham (2010-02-23 17:22:42)

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#2 2010-02-23 17:24:57

loafer
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Registered: 2009-04-14
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Re: Screwed up my rc.conf. I cannot mount my hard drive

The stuff you posted is from a BSD style rc.conf.  Check out the Beginners Guide, it's all there.


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#3 2010-02-23 17:26:45

dham
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Re: Screwed up my rc.conf. I cannot mount my hard drive

Oh ok.  Well I'm not really worried about that so much right now.  I can start it manually(which is what I have been doing).  Soon as I had it automatically start I had these problems.  I'm just trying to change my rc.conf so I can get back into my OS.

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#4 2010-02-23 17:30:18

loafer
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Re: Screwed up my rc.conf. I cannot mount my hard drive

Post your rc.conf please.


All men have stood for freedom...
For freedom is the man that will turn the world upside down.
Gerrard Winstanley.

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#5 2010-02-23 17:34:32

dham
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Registered: 2010-02-23
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Re: Screwed up my rc.conf. I cannot mount my hard drive

Thats just it I can't get into it.  My main question is how to mount my local hard drive.  Everytime I mount sda3(which is what my main partition should be) it mounts the cd in the tray.

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#6 2010-02-23 17:49:58

holstein
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Registered: 2009-02-19
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Re: Screwed up my rc.conf. I cannot mount my hard drive

Then post the output of fdisk -l and blkid. This will show your partitions are aranged.

Instead of mounting on mnt try mounting in a folder of mnt. That what usually I do and most people do.

cd /mnt
mkdir arch
mount /dev/sda3 arch

and so on for each partition.

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