I picked up an 18G Western Digital drive today that hangs off the Ultra66
interface of my BP6 board.
I've taken a rather circuitous route in putting this drive into service
because it doesn't appear that the 6.1 CD uses a boot kernel that recognizes
the interface. I ended up booting on my old drive, mounting the new one,
and copying everything over. That part went fine.
In order to boot from the drive, I needed to get LILO into the MBR. No
problem, edit /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab and write the new boot block,
right? It looked that way. I ended up with just 'LI' on the screen.
Booted with the install CD and got that fixed up (remind me sometime to post
about how to use the install CD for rescueing boot problems!)
I've now got a system that shows only the /dev/hde (the new drive) being
mounted, yet file accesses are _really_ going to the old /dev/hda. Okay,
boot with "linux root=/dev/hde3" and we're off.
I edited /etc/lilo.conf and ensured that everything mentioned /dev/hde as
well as ensuring that /etc/fstab was correcty. Reran LILO and rebooted the
system.
All I get is 01's rolling through the screen. I'm now just using "linux
root=/dev/hde3" to boot my machine and use the new drive. It'll work until
I can get this sorted out...
I'm sure it's something incredibly stupid, but what have I missed?
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Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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