On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0500, 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 >" > > > The motherboard is KA3 MVP and the processor is an AMD Athlon 64 3800. > Booted up with grml_0.9. The partitions are where they should be - i.e.
hda1 hdb1 hdb2 <hdb5, hdb6, hdb7, hdb8 > Running grml I mounted hdb1 and used vi to edit lilo.conf use the mount points set up by grml and then ran lilo to make a dual boot system from hda. Rebooted the system from the first hard drive bringing up Testing with a 2.6.17 kernel. Re-edited lilo.conf use the standard mount points and rebooted again. Eveything works but there remain two problems. First, the other CD based systems - bbc-2.1, Knoppix_v3.3 and DSL - fail. I believe this is because I can only boot from a CD if I edit BIOS to specify a particular device - the dvdrw or the cdrw - in the boot sequence. There is an option for a cdrom but who has one of those any more. Still I believe that the CD based systems fail trying to read this nonexistant device. Only grml stays with the drive from which it is booted. Second, I have no idea why the Sarge rescue disk thinks the hard drives are hde and hdf. When I have cleaned up all the mess I have made putting the new system together I'll download a Testing CD and try its rescue program. Tom > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]