DISK BOOT FAILURE
i am unable to boot from /dev/hda. i have a boot disk and that worked.
i am trying to figure out why i cannot boot from the hard drive.
i have compaired this to a machine that boots but i cannot figure
out what is wrong. help!!
my root filesystem looks like:
server:/# ls
backuphda1 bin dev initrd mnt sbin var
backuphda2 boot etc initrd.img opt server.cfg vmlinuz
backuphda3 cdrom floppy lib proc tmp vmlinuz.old
backuphda5 core.287 home lost+found root usr
my boot file system looks like:
server:/boot# ls -l
total 5074
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 272725 Jan 31 08:02 System.map-
2.2.20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 407266 Apr 14 2002 System.map-
2.4.18-586tsc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7988 Apr 13 2002 boot-bmp.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6204 Apr 13 2002 boot-compat.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7964 Apr 13 2002 boot-menu.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6204 Apr 13 2002 boot-text.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jan 31 08:37 boot.0300
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jan 31 08:36 boot.b ->
boot-menu.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 728 Apr 13 2002 chain.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14979 Jan 31 08:02 config-2.2.20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37091 Apr 13 2002 config-2.
4.18-586tsc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2703360 Feb 1 09:43 initrd.img-
2.4.18-586tsc
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jan 31 07:56 lost+found
-rw------- 1 root root 49664 Feb 1 09:44 map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 656 Apr 13 2002 os2_d.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1005181 Jan 31 08:02 vmlinuz-2.2.20
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 626776 Apr 14 2002 vmlinuz-2.
4.18-586tsc
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump>
<pass>
/dev/hda3 / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0
1
/dev/hda6 none swap sw 0
0
proc /proc proc defaults 0
0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0
0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0
0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0
2
/dev/hda2 /home ext2 defaults 0
2
/dev/hda5 /usr ext2 defaults 0
2
/dev/hdc1 /backuphda1 ext2 defaults 0
0
/dev/hdc2 /backuphda2 ext2 defaults 0
0
/dev/hdc3 /backuphda3 ext2 defaults 0
0
/dev/hdc5 /backuphda5 ext2 defaults 0
0
when i try to mount to the /dev/hdc drive, i get this error:
server:/boot# mount -a
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc1,
or too many mounted file systems
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc2,
or too many mounted file systems
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc3,
or too many mounted file systems
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc5,
or too many mounted file systems
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
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