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Thanks to Mike and John for all their help. I learned a lot. |
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I was able to change my lilo.conf and fstab from the |
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/dev/scsi/hostW/busX/targetY/lunZ/* scheme to /dev/sdaX instead, and |
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my 2.4 kernel came back up no problem. (I wish I could remeber what |
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forced me into using the /dev/scsi scheme in the first place, but oh |
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well.) |
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With that change 2.6 came up as well. |
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Thanks Again! |
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Ian |
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Ian Brandt wrote: |
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> Mike Williams wrote: |
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>>OK great, I'd change my fstab, and reboot to 2.4.X/devfs now, but I'm known |
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>>for being a little gungho :) |
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> Well, guess there's not much more I can do. |
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> Supposing it doesn't come up, would a rescue CD be required to fix it? |
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> I left a copy of the old /etc/fstab as /etc/fstab.bak, and setup a |
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> login with sudo rights to perform the copy, but if the discs don't |
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> come up, will login be possible? (I remember the NOC saying there was |
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> a prompt, "enter the root password for maintenance", or something like |
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> that after a previous failure to boot the 2.6 kernel where the issue |
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> was the Adaptec RAID and general kernel I2O drivers clashing.) |
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>>BTW, what path for root do you pass to grub? |
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> I use lilo actually because it does everything I need, and it doesn't |
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> care that the discs are on a raid array. Grub at least used to |
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> require a special driver. My lilo.conf is below. So would I need to |
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> change my boot and root to the sdaX scheme as well? |
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> # cat /etc/lilo.conf |
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> boot=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc |
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> root=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 |
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> map=/boot/System.map |
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> prompt |
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> timeout=50 |
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> lba32 |
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> vga=normal |
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> default=2.4.25 |
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> image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.25 |
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> label=2.4.25 |
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> read-only |
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> image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.28-gentoo-r9 |
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> label=2.4.28 |
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> read-only |
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> image=/boot/bzImage-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 |
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> label=2.6.13 |
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> read-only |
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