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On 01/20/2011 08:02 AM, Matthias Fechner wrote: |
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> Dear list, |
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> I switched now to a new mainboard and it seems that the drive numbering |
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> changed or my kernel does not detect any hard disks... |
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> If I try to boot my gentoo the kernel panic because it cannot find the |
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> root partition. |
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> After the panic I cannot scroll up to check what drives are detected and |
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> which numbering is used. What must I do to be able to scroll up to see |
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> what is logged to the screen? |
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> (is there maybe a special key available, the shift+page-up and scroll is |
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> not working) |
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You didn't mention whether you were using lilo or grub to boot. |
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If you're using grub you can use the grub shell to figure that out. At |
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least to the which are detected and numbering phase. |
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I had that problem or something similar some time ago when updating to |
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the new, at the time, pata drivers. I ended up using a brute force |
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technique... I booted grub to it's built in shell and used it's limited |
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tools to figure out which partition/drive was which and editing the |
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kernel/initrd lines to get the system to boot to init level 1 and then |
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make the changes permanent in grub and fstab. |
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Probably an easier method would be to use a livecd. Just edit the grub |
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menu.lst file and fstab to match your new layout. Or change the |
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device.map to match the old layout. |
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