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Apparently, though unproven, at 18:57 on Saturday 04 June 2011, Alex Schuster |
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did opine thusly: |
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> Hi there! |
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> A mother board died, so I put the hard drives into an old spare PC, rebuilt |
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> the kernel via chroot in order to include some necessary drivers, and all |
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> was well. Until I plugged in the 2nd hard drive. Then, the thing reboots |
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> after these messages: |
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> VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly on device 8:6 |
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> Freeing unused kernel memory: 304k freed |
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> kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds |
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> Instead, I think init should start. When I unplug the drive, it boots fine. |
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Most obvious things first: |
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What does the system present that BIOS as? |
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Is it now trying to boot off the second drive? |
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> Both drives are partitioned this way: |
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> sda5: /boot ext2 |
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> sda6: / ext3 |
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> sda7-sda13: LVM |
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> GRML boots fine with both drives. |
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> Any ideas? |
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> Wonko |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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