On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 12:40 PM, Grant Grundler wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:06:32PM -0500, David Douthitt wrote:I now have HPPA-Linux installed on TWO disks and both react this way. The second disk had a valid LIF volume on it to start with, and I vgreduced and vgremoved it from the current HP-UX install, but that didn't help.The install will clobber that. It sounds like there is some confusion between the install kernel and your boot process about which is the boot disk.
You misunderstand (I think): there are three drives on this box, two internal (no mirrors), and one external in a Smart Enclosure (with DAT and DVD-ROM).
HP-UX is on one internal disk. In theory, Debian Woody now exists on both of the other drives, both without a valid LIF. I tried using lifinstall on the external drive, and it hung - at least, after 16 hours, that's what it looked like.... even though it was still using 40% CPU.
Can you try to boot from every disk connected to your box? Sorry for the brute force approach but it sounds like that's the only way to find which disk parisc-linux was actually installed on.
Actually, in the process of testing, I have. The HP-UX disk remains intact and operational. The new Debian disks do not have a valid LIF.
Isn't there a shell prompt available during the login process?
Well? :-) Thanks for all the help!