[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I picked up an 18G Western Digital drive today that hangs off the Ultra66
> interface of my BP6 board.
>
> I've taken a rather circuitous route in putting this drive into service
> because it doesn't appear that the 6.1 CD uses a boot kernel that recognizes
> the interface. I ended up booting on my old drive, mounting the new one,
> and copying everything over. That part went fine.
>
> In order to boot from the drive, I needed to get LILO into the MBR. No
> problem, edit /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab and write the new boot block,
> right? It looked that way. I ended up with just 'LI' on the screen.
>
> Booted with the install CD and got that fixed up (remind me sometime to post
> about how to use the install CD for rescueing boot problems!)
>
> I've now got a system that shows only the /dev/hde (the new drive) being
> mounted, yet file accesses are _really_ going to the old /dev/hda. Okay,
> boot with "linux root=/dev/hde3" and we're off.
>
> I edited /etc/lilo.conf and ensured that everything mentioned /dev/hde as
> well as ensuring that /etc/fstab was correcty. Reran LILO and rebooted the
> system.
>
> All I get is 01's rolling through the screen. I'm now just using "linux
> root=/dev/hde3" to boot my machine and use the new drive. It'll work until
> I can get this sorted out...
>
> I'm sure it's something incredibly stupid, but what have I missed?
>
> --
> Steve Philp
> Network Administrator
> Advance Packaging Corporation
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've seen 01s before, on disks that were scored by air freight handlers (just
got one in today on a Digital Celebris 6200. the speaker was bounding around
inside, as well as a few other small parts.
The other suggestion I have heard is when your system and your BIOS think the
disk is configured in different ways, like Normal vs LBA or perhaps Large.
Could /dev/hda and /dev/hde have different logical arrangements? If so, where
does the MBR booting you come from?
I have been working with someone who had
root=/dev/hdc1
running in 6.0, in his lilo.conf
In 6.1, he had to hand edit lilo.conf to get root=/dev/hdc1 into it. Once
there, it seemed to have no effect.
Civileme
