Jim Mintha wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 09:03:50AM -0500, Richard Bielak wrote:
>
> > I'm running Debian 2.1 on a Sparc 5.
> >
> > (Linux www.grator.org 2.0.35 #1 Wed Feb 17 20:37:03 CET 1999 sparc unknown)
> >
> > I shut the machine down and added a second SCSI disk. When I reboot
> > the machine with two disks it doesn't come up anymore. It stops
> > in the line that says:
> >
> >
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k code, 4k data
>
> Does the disk you added have a lower scsi ID than the existing disk?
> When linux numbers the scsi disks it gives sda to the first, sdb to
> the second. If the new one is lower, then when it tries to mount root
> (/dev/sda0 or something) it will get the first disk.
>
Thanks! That was it. The new disk was at 0 and the old one at 3.
I swapped them in the machine and now it works.
...richie
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