Please help my linux boot up correctly.

[Jhill]

I installed linux on a second hard drive. Windows xp is on the first. When I set my bios to boot to my second hard drive. (ide1) I get an eror message when booting linux. It says Can't find ext3 filesystem on DEV ide0 (3.1). What causes this?
When I physically put my linux hard drive on the first connector of my ide cable (ido 0) and set my bios to boot to ide 0 it will boot up fine but I want it to be on the second connector because I will be booting to windows mostly.
Please help.

ps: I changed the jumpers so I don't think that is the problem.

 

[woodcomp]

Best to redo that Linux deal and use LILO to boot your OS's.

 

[manly]

In Linux, the filesystems are enumerated in

/etc/fstab

So when you're moving a disk to a different IDE position, you have to edit that file (and possibly reconfigure LILO). You should have created a Linux bootdisk that allows you to get into single-user mode where you can do basic configuration tasks. There are quite a few Linux on a floppy (or CDR) systems out there designed just for this task.

Generally speaking, you do NOT need to reinstall Linux to fix problems. In fact, I highly recommend fixing it in place so that you find real solutions to your questions.