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On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 08:47, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Doug Hunley <doug.hunley@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> The subject line pretty much says it all. I've been happily using lilo |
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>> to boot from my internal 4-disk sata array (md, raid 1) for a while |
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>> now and I recently bought an external sata enclosure. I cabled it up |
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>> to my machine, added 4 disks I had sitting around, and on boot, lilo |
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>> throws a 'duplicate vol-id detected' error and halts... |
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>> I did a bunch of googling, and it looks like if I could just get |
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>> booted, running 'lilo' would actually fix the problem, but I can't get |
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>> lilo booted past this error. |
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>> Ideas on how I can fix/remove the vol-id from the external disks? |
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> I *think* those are going to be filesystem labels. If it's ext-based, |
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> you should be able to use tune2fs to change them. |
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> Is there a reason you can't boot from a liveDVD or similar, chroot in, |
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> and run lilo? You'll have to get to a working system to change things |
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> one way or another... |
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> :wq |
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no, these are not filesystem labels. they are the first 4 bytes of |
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each disks MBR ;) |
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lilo will correct them, if i can get lilo booted |
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i tried booting systemrescue cd, and it boots, but it doesn't see the |
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external drives (hence it boots fine) |
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Douglas J Hunley (doug.hunley@×××××.com) |
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Twitter: @hunleyd Web: |
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douglasjhunley.com |
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G+: http://goo.gl/sajR3 |
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