I have instaled Debian Pototo on an old Pentium 133MHz PCI machine to
use primarily as a firewall/gateway for our internet.� It has two 2GB
drives.� hda has a 32MB swap partition and the rest of the disk is the
root partition.� I use all of hdb as the /home mount.� Both hard drives
are configured in the bios for LBA mode (other choices available are
AUTO, LARGE and NORMAL).
It *was* booting OK but now it doesn't.� LILO comes up and the kernel
starts to boot.� It then gets a kernel panic saying "attempt to access
beyond end of device".� I know that hdb has been having some problems
with timeouts.� I'm not sure if it is the harddrive or the harddisk
controller.� If I boot from floppy and type "rescue root=/dev/hda2" then
the machine boots OK.� This leads me to believe that the kernel and/or
modules need to be in a small boot partition at the start of the disk.�
Is this a correct assumption or is something else likely to be the
problem ?� I think I have upgraded the kernel (was 2.2.15 from the
floppies) to 2.2.17.
If I do need to create a boot partition, then I need to move and resive
some/all of the partitions on hda.� Can I do this without losing all the
information on the root partition.� It takes soooo long to install all
this over the internet.� Maybe I should burn a CD image ?� Will
something like fips do what I want ?� Are there any other tools ??
Please CC any replies to me as well as the list,
Thanks,
Brendan Simon.
