I figured something out! When I was asked for my fstab I 
gave you all the fstab of the live cd. The fstab of the hd 
was: 
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1 
/dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1 
/dev/sda1 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0 
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0 
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 
# Dynamic entries 
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0 
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0 
 
I changed it to  
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0 
#/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1 
/dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1 
/dev/sda1 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0 
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0 
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 
# Dynamic entries 
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0 
 
When I changed it I had so hoped that this would fix it 
yet it did not! 
What else do I need to do? 
 
for your information here is my setup: 
hda1 = root 
hda4 = home 
hda3 = data 
 
>  
> From: <bmike101@cox.net> 
> Date: 2006/03/27 Mon PM 05:19:18 PST 
> To: Main PLUG discussion list 
<plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> 
> Subject: hda2 error 
>  
> How strange; it happened again. I reninstalled the OS 
and,  
> as before, it loaded once. After it loads once and I  
> shutdown it seems to think that hda2 is back. It is as 
if  
> it won't accept hda1,3,&4 without 2. Does this make any  
> sense? I'll reload from the hd and look at fstab (if I  
> can).	  
>  
>