Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf - Thanks
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:19:53PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
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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.
Thanks. Grml is great, more powerful than the outdated bbc. My problem
is not yet fully solved but I'm on my way.
Tom
>
> You definately need to boot some linux to reinstall grub or lilo.
>
> Joe
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