On Thursday 10 May 2001 17:38, Bruce Endries wrote:
> Hello everyone;
>
> I have a LM 7.1 system on a which the motherboard had to be
> replaced. The system worked fine. While the motherboard was out,
> I put the (IDE) drive into another system (LM8) as a secondary
> drive. The primary drive in this system is SCSI. I was able to
> access the IDE drive okay after putting the proper entries into fstab
> and mounting it.
>
> Then I get the new motherboard back, and I put the drive back with
> it again, and it won't boot. I get LI.. the first two letters of LILO, and
> that's it. I thought it might be the manner the motherboard was
> addressing the drive, so I tried "LBA", "Large", "CHS" and "Auto",
> and always get the same result.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thank you in advance for any light you can shed on this problem. I
> really don't want to re-install the system if I don't have to.
>
>
> Bruce Endries
> Bruce Endries Consulting
> (607) 433-2677
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did you have reiser partitions on the drive? In particular was / reiser?
If so, you must now update to 8.0 and then back up your data to ext2 and
reinstall 7.1. If your data is mostly in /home, then I think it will be best
to actually install 8.0 then back it up.... Alternatively you can use your
other system for the backup.
If you do NOT have reiser, then the mbr is probably damaged with respect to
the new Mobo. To fix this use the 7.1 install CD, hit F1, type "rescue"
without the quotes, and ... when the system comes up
# mount /dev/hdax /mnt ## where x is the number for your / partition
# chroot /mnt
# /sbin/lilo
EVEN if you were using grub, which you obviously were not.
You should then be bootable from the hard disk, take out the CD and type
# reboot
Civileme
