Civileme wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > 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?
> >
> > --
> > Steve Philp
> > Network Administrator
> > Advance Packaging Corporation
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I've seen 01s before, on disks that were scored by air freight handlers (just
> got one in today on a Digital Celebris 6200. the speaker was bounding around
> inside, as well as a few other small parts.
>
> The other suggestion I have heard is when your system and your BIOS think the
> disk is configured in different ways, like Normal vs LBA or perhaps Large.
The thing is, I don't see a way to adjust the mapping of the UDMA/66
drives like I'd have for a normal drive.
I finally just took out the old drive and attempted an install onto the
new drive. There's some LILO stuff you can pass to get it to recognize
the extra controller. But, after installation, I get just the 'LI' when
trying to boot.
So, I've now moved the UDMA/66 drive onto the normal cable and the
install there went just fine. Booting works also, so I'll wait a bit
before I screw it up again. :)
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
