Type the following as root and let us know what you get:
#cd /proc/ide
#dir
The above should tell you what ide devices are installed. You can then
input the device name into the following, "fdisk -l /dev/<device name here>"
and that will tell you what partitions reside on that ide device.
Maybe someone else has more insight. Is your drive a SCSI drive? That will
definitely change things.
HTH,
Matt
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [newbie] Kernel updates -- Compiled, but not taking...
>Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:40:18 -0500 (EST)
>
>Hiya folks,
>
>Relatively quick (I hope) question about kernel updates on a Mandrake 6.1
>machine. I've been playing with Linux for a couple years, and have
>recently stopped using Slackware in favor of Mandrake (with which I am
>very impressed!) I'm in a position to encourage the use of Linux at
>several technology departments within Cornell, but in order to do so, I'm
>trying to get a better handle on it myself.
>
>My problem is with kernel updates. Previously (with Slackware) I would
>download source, compile it, and overwrite vmlinuz with the image that
>I'd compiled. I do that now, and my /boot partition shows vmlinuz
>pointing to the 2.2.13-22mdk kernel, as well as the system map and module
>info also pointing to the new versions, but as soon as I reboot, it drops
>back to the old version. I can't seem to get it to accept the new one,
>even after re-running lilo and editing by hand lilo.conf.
>
>I went into linuxconf to play around with the lilo configurations, and
>hit a major roadblock. My linux partition is the secondary master
>(/dev/hdc1 -- boot, hdc2 -- root, hdc3 -- swap), and so the 'root
>partition' option under the lilo conf is /dev/hdc2. This works. My
>machine dual boots perfectly between Linux and Win98. However, if I go
>into the config and try to add a new kernel to lilo, or even to look at
>the one that's there, it refuses to 'accept' even the options /that
>already are in place/ because '/dev/hdc2 is not a valid linux partition'.
>I've tried every other hdc partition, just /dev/hdc, and just /. It won't
>accept anything. According to the help, the drop-down menu displays a
>list of partitions there, but it doesn't.
>
>I tried running Helios on a machine at one of the technology offices here
>at Cornell, and encountered the same problem. That machine has only one
>hard disk (though, for no good reason, it's the secondary master), and
>Mandrake refuses to accept any setting as the 'root' partition for LILO;
>it won't accept any kernel upgrades (at least, not in the fashion I'm
>accustomed to) either.
>
>Has anyone else encountered this? I tried looking through the FAQ, and
>changed my LILO boot mode to linear (because my linux disk is a Maxtor
>IDE 5 gig drive and reports itself oddly to Linux, even though it works
>fine in BIOS) but that didn't matter.
>
>Thanks very much, in advance -- I have several people here oooing and
>aaahing over Mandrake, which has been up for two weeks on our network,
>unlike our student lab machines, that crash every couple hours (one guess
>what OS they're running...)
>
>-Samuel Knowlton
>Johnson Graduate School of Management
>Technology Services
>Cornell University
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