On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:30 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.
The LILO source code contains a diagnostics diskette that you can build, maybe it can be of some assistance. It has been over a decade since the last time I saw LILO so I'm unfortunately no help beyond this bit of trivia. > Ideas on how I can fix/remove the vol-id from the external disks? Do you have another machine with SATA ports that you can hook them up to temporarily and alter those troublesome bytes?
