Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf !!!
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Thomas H. George wrote:
> I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home
> Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system
> - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge
> installation set as a rescue disk to access hdb and run lilo to convert
> this box to a dual boot box.
>
> boot: rescue=/dev/hdb5 failed.
>
> During the load
>
> "Partition Check
> hdd
> hde: hde1
> hdf: hdf1,hdf2 < hdf5, hdf6, hdf7, hdf8 >"
>
> so I tried.
>
> boot: rescue=/dev/hdf5
>
> which stopped with
>
> "Warning: Unable to open and initial console
> Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing an init= option to the
> kernel"
>
> I don't know why the letters changed and what init option I should use.
> The hard drives are master and slave on ide 1. There are two
> connectors, ide 1 and ide 2 on the motherboard.
>
> The motherboard is KA3 MVP and the processor is an AMD Athlon 64 3800.
>
> (Note: Only the Debian Sarge disc knows what's out there. My Knoppix
> CD, my bbc-2.1 CD, my Damn Small Linux CD and two Debian boot floppies
> all fail.)
>
> How can I regain access to my Debian system?
>
I hate to suggest yet another distro for you, but perhaps grml can help
you. It's one of the best recovery systems that is widely used by
sysadmins.
You definately need to boot some linux to reinstall grub or lilo.
Joe
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