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On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:30 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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The LILO source code contains a diagnostics diskette that you can |
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build, maybe it can be of some assistance. It has been over a decade |
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since the last time I saw LILO so I'm unfortunately no help beyond |
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this bit of trivia. |
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> Ideas on how I can fix/remove the vol-id from the external disks? |
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Do you have another machine with SATA ports that you can hook them up |
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to temporarily and alter those troublesome bytes? |