It appears to start booting from the floppy, then switches to the SCSI. The same
thing happens no matter whether I designate CD, floppy or SCSI as first choice for
boot.
I have tried to reinstall, and the same thing happens. I had the internal SCSI set
as #0 and the external as #3, and the terminator was in place.
Since the external wasn't recognized by w2k on my two other systems, I have
returned it to IBM. I paid FedEx around $15 to send it the first time, and the USPO
$3.95 this time (with tracking number)! It really hurt two weeks ago, as I had to
return one to Seagate at the same time.
I have two Linux boot discs, one generic from before I installed, and one custom
from after installation. I also have a drivers disc, but it doesn't want that one now.
It seems to me that if I disabled LILO in such a way that it would go only to w2k,
I could then reinstall Linux, but I don't know how to do this.
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From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2001/10/10 Wed PM 02:57:50 EDT
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Re: Kernel panic: VFS
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Mikkel Ellertson wrote:
>
> Now, if this was an operational system before you attached the externel
> drive to it, and it stopped working when you added the drive, then I
> would check the SCSI ID to make sure you do not have two devices with
> the same SCSI ID. Then double check your termination to make sure you
> have the SCSI chain terminated on both ends, and noware else. If you
> have both internel and externel devices, that means you have the devices
> farthest from the controller card terminated, and you do not have
> termination active on the card. If you only have the externel drive,
> then that drive and the card require termination.
>
> Correct, the system was operational (on an internal SCSI disc,
> SCSI#0) before I attached the external (SCSI#3). It was properly
> terminated. The question really is, since it still malfunctions in
> Linux with the external disc removed, how do I get it to reload? It
> wants to keep going back to the hard disc, even though boot order in
> BIOS is set to floppy-CD-SCSI?
>
Is it going to the hard drive, or is it booting from the floppy, and the
kernel loaded from the floppy is trying to access the hard drive? From
the error message, the kernel is loading, and it is trying to mount the
root file system from partition 15 on the SCSI drive.
I guess what I realy need to know is exactly how you are booting the
system. Do you hae a Linux boot floppy in the floppy drive? If so,
where did this floppy come from? What happens if you boot the system
without a floppy in the drive?
I am not sure exactly what you did, but it sounds like you have managed
to wipe out the partition table on the internel SCSI drive. The fact
that Linux no longer works, and that W2K can no longer see the drive
points in this direction. Depending on what you did, you may be able to
recover from this. Or you may deside it is easyer to reinstall Linux.
Mikkel
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for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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