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Re: installation problem



On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 05:37:25PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (14/03/06 15:22), Martin Kotys wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 02:44:30PM +0000, Martin Kotys wrote:
> > > > Not working as well. Kernel is with devfs support and harddisks are
> > > > accessible through /dev/scsi/.. device, but it tries to write to
> > > > /dev/sda
> > > > 
> > > > error message from lilo:
> > > > mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted  or /boot busy
> > > > 
> > > > Nobody has installed amd64 Debian on machine with SCSI controller?
> > > 
> > > Yes, but only grub, never lilo.  Well I guess technically SATA isn't
> > > scsi, but it does use the scsi interface in linux.
> > > 
> > > Did you setup your partitions in an unusual way?
> > 
> > Grub hangs while trying to probe devices. 
> > 
> > I have just 3 partitions -
> > sda1 /boot
> > sda2 /home
> > sda3 / 
> 
> Just a thought, what does your /boot/grub/menu.lst look like?

It's sorted. /boot partition can't be xfs. Don't understand exactly why,
but grub started to work. I couldn't manage to force lilo working..

-- 
Martin Kotys



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