Re: Transfering my system to a new disk (was: Root partition stuck in read-only mode.)
Quoting Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net>:
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> Gack!
>
> How old is the drive? Any chance the issue is termination or a
> misconfigured jumper? You're using an Adaptec 2940?
I'll check the jumper later, when I open up my box. Yes, I believe
it's a 2940
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> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
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> > Thanks again for the earlier help, and thanks in advance for any
> > help you might be able to offer for this new system-copy task.
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> This may prove difficult. Why not just remove /dev/sda once you've
> copied stuff over? Then, if you run LILO boot wiuth a rescue floppy
> and/or CD, type "linux root=/dev/sda1" at the prompt, and rerun lilo
> once you're up.
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> If you use GRUB, it would be a good idea to make a grub boot floppy;
> then you can boot to any kernel on any drive in the system! Google
> for this or ask me; I'll look around for my link.
Well, I'm using LILO. I want to create a proper rescue disk,
and I used the mkboot utility to do so. It told me that it created
a proper disk, but when I tried to boot off of it, I got a kernel
panic with a message that stated that there was not a proper
root file system. I did the boot by typing "linux" and also
"linux root=/dev/sda2". Both resulted in the same error.
I don't know if this matters, but there are no /boot/boot*.b
files on my system. The mkboot utility seems to be looking for
a /boot/boot.b file, although it doesn't give me an error. But
is that a problem?
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God bless you.
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