On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 08:47, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Doug Hunley <doug.hun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The subject line pretty much says it all. I've been happily using lilo >> to boot from my internal 4-disk sata array (md, raid 1) for a while >> now and I recently bought an external sata enclosure. I cabled it up >> to my machine, added 4 disks I had sitting around, and on boot, lilo >> throws a 'duplicate vol-id detected' error and halts... >> I did a bunch of googling, and it looks like if I could just get >> booted, running 'lilo' would actually fix the problem, but I can't get >> lilo booted past this error. >> >> Ideas on how I can fix/remove the vol-id from the external disks? > > I *think* those are going to be filesystem labels. If it's ext-based, > you should be able to use tune2fs to change them. > > Is there a reason you can't boot from a liveDVD or similar, chroot in, > and run lilo? You'll have to get to a working system to change things > one way or another... > > -- > :wq >
no, these are not filesystem labels. they are the first 4 bytes of each disks MBR ;) lilo will correct them, if i can get lilo booted i tried booting systemrescue cd, and it boots, but it doesn't see the external drives (hence it boots fine) -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd Web: douglasjhunley.com G+: http://goo.gl/sajR3
