Re: SATA drive probs: Knoppix OK, but nothing else
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:50:50 -0700
Glenn English <ghe@slsware.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 16 March 2006 05:24, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> > Booting into my normal Sarge with lilo hangs at the start with the
> > drive connected.
>
> Oh, dear! Sarge is doing this too.
>
> > If Knoppix has absolutely no problems, I believe my problems are all
> > software related. Knoppix finds it as /dev/sda. I created ext2
> > partitions 1-7, no problems. I was unable to run lilo from Knoppix:
> > got errors that he could not find the right device mapper.
> >
> > Anybody have a clue as to what to google for, or what to do next to
> > get a bootloader to run with the drive connected?
>
> It's software, all right. The installer is setting things up in a way
> that is trashed by something during the boot process. Things are
> moved around and drives are renamed. Knoppix is seeing your drive(s)
> correctly because it's booting the CD -- if your system could get
> through the boot process, it'd see things correctly too.
>
> If I were you, I'd try to install from an old CD set. This has
> happened in just the past few weeks. You might want to try woody. It
> worked.
Woody will not recognize SATA drives. I would try a "modprobe dm_mod"
in Knoppix, then mount /, with /boot mounted inside of it, if they are
on different partitions. Now chroot into / and run the installed copy
of lilo. This usually works for me, even if it spits a warning or two.
HTH,
Jacob
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