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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 |