RE: [SLUG] file system hda numbers have changed can't boot into l inux

["Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP" <Christopher.Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry Jeff

I didn't know exactly where to type this ?
If you haven't done this before, type "linux root=/dev/hda10" (or whichever
partition is your real root partition).

cfdisk from the BBC says partitions are tended
fdisk  from the BBC says that table entries are not in disk order

I used this anyway to delete a Linux swap device on /dev/hda6, which brought
my Linux partition back to /dev/hda9

I overwrote my master boot record with a third party bootloader, but it
didn't pick it up, and neither did my rescue floppy

I finally decided to insert my Mandrake 8 install CDs and update to see
whether I could get my system going again

Thanks for your help and apologies if I was not technical enough in my
explanation.

I have 2 hard disks in my system. 
1 Master IDE of 13GB
2 SCSI of 9GB

Everything was fine until, I decided to use diskdrake to wipe a hidden fat
partition and make a new fat32 partition.  Before rebooting this worked
fine, I even created a VMware virtual disk in that partition.
I shutdown so I could temporarily install a 3rd hard drive (2GB IDE as a
slave drive to my 1st IDE hard drive.
I rebooted, and the SCSI drive was located by the SCSI BIOS as drive 2(I
think it goes 0,1,2 as normally it is drive 1).
Mandrake goes through the boot process, but detects the dual ultrawide SCSI,
says that module is already installed, and just after that gives an error
that it can't mount vrootfs or something similar.

Anyway, I just finished doing an update from the Mandrake CD and I have my
system back, working nicely.

What did I learn ? Don't stuff around with partitions too much, back up if
possible, give technical descriptions of problems when posting to list.

Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Waugh [mailto:jdub@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 7:27 AM
To: 'slug@xxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: Re: [SLUG] file system hda numbers have changed can't boot into
linux


<quote who="Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP">

> My hard drive file numbering has changed, lilo on mandrake8 is looking for
> hda9, but it is now hda10.  It is on a Reiserfs partition.  I am not sure
> how this happened, but I want to get in.  How can I change the graphical
> boot prompt to look at the correct hda number.

Hey,

You need to boot with a recovery CD that supports ReiserFS - I assume the
Mandrake install CD will do this, if not, use LNXBBC (which is the new
Linuxcare bootable CD project).

If you haven't done this before, type "linux root=/dev/hda10" (or whichever
partition is your real root partition).

Once you've booted correctly, edit lilo.conf to point to the correct root
and boot partitions, and run lilo. Then reboot.

[ You've mentioned a graphical boot manager - you're not running GRUB or
something like that are you? ]

:)

- Jeff

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