Re: new hard drive install
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 05:27:59PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, charles kaufman wrote:
>
> > I partitioned the new drive with hda1 as dos, hda2 as linux native, hda3
> > as linux swap. I copied (only) dos c: to hda1, and all of the linux
> > to hda2. I altered lilo.conf to reflect these changes
> > and ran lilo; I changed fstab. I also ran mkswap.
> > Now with the new drive on the first ide socket I get the lilo prompt ok.
> > If I choose dos, then dos boots and runs ok. But if I choose linux, the
> > boot process runs part way and then hangs with a kernel panic after
> > the partition check, with the message
> > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03"
>
> It's still trying to mount root from hda3. i don't know why, since you say
> you've checked and rechecked to make sure /etc/lilo.conf is correct and
> you've run lilo with the correct settings...
>
> Since i can't think of anything else, is the device correct?
> $ ls -l /dev/hda2
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 2 Jun 17 22:13 /dev/hda2
> ^^^^^^
>
> > The partition check gives "hda: hda1 hda2 hda3" which is what I think it
> > should give.
>
> That's right.
>
> > I've checked and rechecked the lilo.conf stanza for linux
> > and it says root=/dev/hda2
> > and the fstab entry is the same.
> > Can anyone suggest what I've missed or forgotten? I'll supply
> > more details if needed of course.
>
>
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Check the boot= in LILO. I just recently had similar problems and it turned
out that I was writing my new lilo to /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/hda.
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