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Problem with Tablet pc install using adapter on another pc
  • DuaneDuane December 2010
    I installed 3.0 on a Fujitsu Stylistic 3500 tablet by taking the hard drive out and using an adapter to hook it up via usb to my desktop pc then moving hard drive back to the tablet after the install.
    First I had to edit the boot menu to get it to boot and then make a permanent change to the menu after I booted up. OK so far, however I cannot log in to anything but root because the install was originally to /dev/sdb which is now /dev/hda since moving it back to the tablet.
    Here is a portion of the boot log:

    Starting udev daemon.... Failed
    Udevadm requesting events from the kernel..... OK
    Udevadm waiting for the event queue to finish... OK
    Checking filesystem on /dev/sdb1
    /sbin/e2fsck: No such device or address while trying to open /dev/sdb1
    Possibly non-existent or swap device?
    Remounting rootfs read/write...
    Ext3 FS on hda1, internal journal mounting filesystems in fstab...
    mount: mounting /dev/sdb2 on /home failed: No such device or address
    Cleaning up the system... OK

    So my question is how hard would it be to fix all of these references to /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2?
    Where would I start?
    I suppose it might be easier to remove the hard drive again and do another install from an old laptop.
    I would prefer to just fix this one though.
    The tablet has no CD drive and won't boot from a usb via the bios and I am on dialup internet.
    Any ideas on where to start fixing this would be appreciated.
    Thank you,
    Duane
  • mojomojo December 2010
    Is it a full install or frugal ?
    You put /home on it's own partition ?
    mount: mounting /dev/sdb2 on /home failed: No such device or address
    /home/tux is regular user and it is on partition system can't mount because /dev/sdb2 name is wrong in /etc/fstab.

    We know that / is on /dev/hda1 , /home is likely /dev/hda2
    Check in terminal with
    root@slitaz: fdisk -l 

    With that information:
    root@slitaz: nano /etc/fstab

    Change /dev/sdb2 to /dev/hda? from above so it mounts /home
    root@slitaz: mount -a

    Then you should be able to login as regular user tux without a password
    If this is a frugal install you will have to run
    root@slitaz: tazusb writefs lzma 

    to rewrite the rootfs.gz to save your edit on /etc/fstab
    Adding additional users has broken login to X, do a forum/documentation search for info on getting it to work.

  • DuaneDuane December 2010
    Thanks. It is late and I have had a busy day. I will try your suggestions tomorrow.
    Duane

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