Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf !!!

2007-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:39:33AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I call my computer Phoenix because it has gone through a massive upgrade. It had 1 GHz cpu, a motherboard with problems and two hard drives - hda with windoz for a couple of trivial apps and Debian testing for all the real work.

Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf !!!

2007-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge installation set as a

Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf !!!

2007-03-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:42:11PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17 and

Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf - Thanks

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:19:53PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas H. George wrote: I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17 and

Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf - Thanks

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:47:50AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17 and

Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf !!!

2007-03-04 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: boot: rescue=/dev/hdf5 which stopped with Warning: Unable to open and initial console Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing an init= option to the kernel You have to add an init line into /boot/grub/menu.lst.

Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf - Resolved

2007-03-04 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge installation set as a

Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf !!!

2007-03-03 Thread Thomas H. George
I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge installation set as a rescue disk to access hdb and run lilo to convert this box to a dual

Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf !!!

2007-03-03 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas H. George wrote: I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge installation set as

Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf !!!

2007-03-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge installation set as a