New Disk

[lbarron]

Hi,

I have a Suse Linux installation and the hard drive failed.

We have recovered all the data to another disk but the operating system fails half way through booting as it seems to be trying to mount the file system using the old disk name.

Is there a way I can change this?

Thanks

Lee

 

[IPGuru]

Yes
Boot form a live CD
mount your boot drive & edit /etc/fstab

if it is the boot drive that failed you will need to recreate the initial ram disk fail
in which case boot from the live cd
mount the hard disk
chroot to the mounted disk & run mkinitrd
you will have to google for the parameters I am afraid I have only done this once & cant remember the exact details