Screwed up my rc.conf. I cannot mount my hard drive

dham · 2010-02-23 17:21:06

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)

loafer · 2010-02-23 17:24:57

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

dham · 2010-02-23 17:26:45

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.

loafer · 2010-02-23 17:30:18

Post your rc.conf please.

dham · 2010-02-23 17:34:32

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.

holstein · 2010-02-23 17:49:58

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.

Arch Linux

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

Screwed up my rc.conf. I cannot mount my hard drive

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

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