On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Doug Hunley <doug.hun...@gmail.com> wrote: > The subject line pretty much says it all. I've been happily using lilo > to boot from my internal 4-disk sata array (md, raid 1) for a while > now and I recently bought an external sata enclosure. I cabled it up > to my machine, added 4 disks I had sitting around, and on boot, lilo > throws a 'duplicate vol-id detected' error and halts... > I did a bunch of googling, and it looks like if I could just get > booted, running 'lilo' would actually fix the problem, but I can't get > lilo booted past this error. > > Ideas on how I can fix/remove the vol-id from the external disks?
I *think* those are going to be filesystem labels. If it's ext-based, you should be able to use tune2fs to change them. Is there a reason you can't boot from a liveDVD or similar, chroot in, and run lilo? You'll have to get to a working system to change things one way or another... -- :wq
