* August C. Quint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070322 16:11]: > >> Maybe using Grub instead is worth a try. > I think we should first try to solve problem #2.
Yeah for sure, just answered your question. ;) > >> Sorry no idea yet. Can you please provide me a screenshot of the > >> booting process where it hangs? > Sorry, I don't know how to make a screenshot in this stage of booting. And I > don't have a digital camera (yet). So I try to write down the lines visible: > the last lines before the problem happesn are related to raidx, so here it > goes: > Success: loaded module raid456 > Success: loaded module raid5 > Success: loaded module raid6 > Modprobe: FATAL: Module raid10 not found > Done. > Begin: Assemblying all MD arrays ... > Now I get 6x the lines: > usb 2-2: reset high speed USB device running ehci_hcd and address 2 > followed by > sd: 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00050000 > And this will continue. Ok, so if you press return then you don't see a busybox shell or something like that? > It looks like it accessed the disk successfully but it tries to access the > single disk as a raid-disk in this stage (but I'm no expert here). No, shouldn't be the case because if there aren't any MD arrarys present, mdadm will not touch anything. > What can I do? Which information do you need? Please make sure that you are trying to boot the correct system. So boot your system but append root=/dev/sdb1 to the end of the 'grml' entry in lilo (yes, this works interactive - no reason to adjust /etc/lilo.conf) this time if your grml system resides on first partition of the device. What are you getting then? Any changes when using root=/dev/sda1? > >> Oh, and you might want to try to use root=UUID=... instead of > >> root=/dev/sd[a-z]... so you can make sure your system uses the > >> correct device for booting. > where do I have to put these modifications (I'm no expert here) ? > I guess: I can use Knoppix to boot the machine and look for the file lio.conf > (or so) on this external harddisk. Right? Knoppix?! http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2006/08/11/stable-root-device-aka-uuid/ regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc
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