On Wednesday 12 Mar 2003 8:02 am, Joerg Mertin wrote:
> Anne - could you give a exact explanation of your drives ? By that, I
> mean, how many disks are in there - best would be a dmesg-grep.
> Short after boot, make a:
> dmesg | egrep "hd|dev"
>
> Or if you have huge uptimes - go to the /var/log directory and issue a:
> egrep "hd|dev" dmesg
>
Attached, also comment on drives.
> and post it here. Another thing you need to specify us - are the boot
> drives. We then can recreate you a lilo.conf file you could try.
> Also - please repost you actual lilo.conf.
>
MBR is on hde
fstab and lilo.conf attached.
> Note - lilo will not break anything on your system if you reinstall it. If
> you want to backup the last master-boot record, just issue a:
>
> dd if=/dev/<boot disk> of=bootsector.raw bs=512 count=1
>
Will do that before attempting anything drastic <g>
> If you need to recover your old bootsector - use:
> dd if=bootsector.raw of=/dev/<boot disk>
>
> /sbin/hdparm -d 1 -W 1 -k 1 -c 1 -m 16 /dev/hda
>
> you might want to check the hdparm manpages to know the exact meaning of
> the flags.
>
OK - I have the info, I'll study it.
> means - in your case - you had to modify all /dev/hdbX instances to
> /dev/hdc instances and you would have been fine. Of course - you need to
> make sure to check your CMOS settings. Many people I know do turn of the
> secondary Port to save Interrupts. So - if you do not see the drive 2 at
> all while booting up - that's most probably what happened.
>
Not sure I understand here - I did not move any drives at all, just formatted
some partitions and made a new install.
> OK - I hope I have not been too long here - but this thread could be
> solved soo fast ;o)
>
Thanks, Joerg. I hope the attached files will help you come to some
conclusion.
Anne
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egrep "hd|dev" dmesg
egrep: dmesg: No such file or directory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]# cd /var/log
[EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# egrep "hd|dev" dmesg
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=win4lin ro root=2141 nobiospnp mem=nopentium
devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
devfs: v1.12a (20020514) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
PDC20265: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 88
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:11.0
ide2: BM-DMA at 0x7800-0x7807, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMA
ide3: BM-DMA at 0x7808-0x780f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio
hda: HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-5000, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: CR-48X9TE, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: FUJITSU MPG3204AT E, ATA DISK drive
hdf: Maxtor 91731U4, ATA DISK drive
hdg: FUJITSU MPA3043ATU, ATA DISK drive
hde: 40031712 sectors (20496 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=39714/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdf: 34004880 sectors (17410 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=33735/16/63, UDMA(66)
hdg: 8544940 sectors (4375 MB), CHS=9042/15/63, UDMA(33)
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0:<6> [PTBL] [2491/255/63] p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 p8 >
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0:<6> [PTBL] [2116/255/63] p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 >
/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0:<6> [PTBL] [531/255/63] p2 < p5 >
Mounted devfs on /dev
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0a.0
Mounted devfs on /dev
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:04.2
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:04.3
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1, assigned device number 2
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/2, assigned device number 3
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1/1, assigned device number 4
usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x718/0x2) is not claimed by any active driver.
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1/2, assigned device number 5
printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 5 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0
pid 0x3304
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 4
scsi2 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
hda: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 21:05.
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0c.2
hda: DMA disabled
hdc: DMA disabled
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:09.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] log]#Drive geometry -
hde1 windows98
5 fat32
6 ext3, Mandrake 8.2 - no longer used
7 swap
8 fat32, data
hdf1 ext3, / Mandrake 9.0
5 swap
6 fat32, Data
7 ext3, /home
MCC lists them in order of:
hde 1, 5, 8, 6, 7
hdf 1, 5, 7, 6
hdg - front half empty, back half, 8.2's home. This drive to be taken out next
time it's convenient. No longer used.
/dev/hdf1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdf7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdf6 /mnt/Data vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,user,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sda /mnt/LS120 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,dev,sync,codepage=850,suid,umask=0
0 0
none /mnt/cdrom supermount
dev=/dev/hda,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hde8 /mnt/graphics vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hdg5 /mnt/temp ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hde1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,user,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hde5 /mnt/windows2 vfat umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hde7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdf5 swap swap defaults 0 0
# added by NeTraverse - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE, it's used for uninstall
default=win4lin
# end added by NeTraverse - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE, it's used for uninstall
boot=/dev/hde
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
keytable=/boot/uk.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk
label=Mandrake_9.0-2.
root=/dev/hdf1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img
append="nobiospnp mem=512M nopentium devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hdf1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe mem=512M nopentium devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
other=/dev/hde1
label=windowsOriginal
table=/dev/hde
map-drive=0x80 to=0x81
map-drive=0x81 to=0x80
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
# added by NeTraverse - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE, it's used for uninstall
image=/boot/win4lin
label=win4lin
root=/dev/hdf1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="nobiospnp mem=512M nopentium devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
# end added by NeTraverse - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE, it's used for uninstall
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