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On Monday 19 November 2007 11:46:39 pm Billy Holmes wrote: |
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> Jeff Cranmer wrote: |
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> > The kernel now finds the drive, but for some reason puts a little 8MB |
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> > drive at sda, and populates the 'real' 250MB drive at sdb, so the kernel |
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> > still panics (probably due to fstab wanting to see the main drive at sda, |
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> > not sdb). |
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> that's very odd that there is a sda drive. Perhaps sda is a pen drive |
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> that you have installed? a USB drive? |
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> you can always change your boot options in grub. |
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> at the grub prompt, hit [e]dit, select the line which has the "kernel" |
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> line, move the cursor to the end, and change root=/dev/sda1 to /dev/sdb1 |
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> hit [b]oot |
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> sit back and smile. |
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I already tried that - sit back and sulk, I'm afraid :-( |
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Because fstab still points to /dev/sda, it fails when it tries to map the |
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drives. I could play with fstab, but I'm not ready to break my working OS |
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yet. |
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There are no usb drives connected to the system. In fact, the only USB device |
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attached is the HP PSC750xi printer. |
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When it fails after re-pointing the grub booter to /dev/sdb, it does at least |
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fail so that I can get to a shell as root. dmesg doesn't work from the |
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shell, however. I wonder if there is a command I can use to query the new |
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sda and find out where it is getting it from? |
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Jeff |
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