Re: LILO Problem

[Dale Morris <dlm@well.com>]

Big learning curve here. I only have the one drive and when I hooked it to
the mb I undoubtedly wired it up wrong. I just checked and it is on the
secondary controller. What now? Can I just hook it up properly, change the
fstab to read hda, then reboot or do I have to move partitions from hdc to
hda?

thanks for your help
you guys are great


Bob Billson [reb@elbnet.com] wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:55:56AM -0800, Dale Morris wrote:
> Hi Dale... I forgot to ask how many drives are in your machine?
> 
> >       Partition check:
> >        hdc: hdc1 hdc2 < hdc5 hdc6 > hdc3 hdc4
> 
> This it the only drive the kernel finds when booting?  Seems like it.  The
> kernel should report all IDE devices (hard/CD drives, tape drives, etc.) it
> finds.  From the looks of it, you have only one hard drive which set to be
> master and plugged into the secondary controller.  Does your BIOS agree with
> this?  You need at least one drive which is master on the primary controller.
> Your BIOS might allow you to boot from any drive or auto-detect any single
> drive and say "Guess I'll use this".  I don't know.
> 
> So before you go any further...how many drive does your machine have?  If just
> this one, where does your BIOS say it is.  DON'T move the drive around yet!
> If your /etc/fstab isn't right, you won't be able to reboot!
> 
>                bob
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