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.
Jim
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