Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [ ... ] > > Gack! > > How old is the drive? Any chance the issue is termination or a > misconfigured jumper? You're using an Adaptec 2940?
I'll check the jumper later, when I open up my box. Yes, I believe it's a 2940 > [ ... ] > > Lloyd Zusman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thanks again for the earlier help, and thanks in advance for any > > help you might be able to offer for this new system-copy task. > > This may prove difficult. Why not just remove /dev/sda once you've > copied stuff over? Then, if you run LILO boot wiuth a rescue floppy > and/or CD, type "linux root=/dev/sda1" at the prompt, and rerun lilo > once you're up. > > If you use GRUB, it would be a good idea to make a grub boot floppy; > then you can boot to any kernel on any drive in the system! Google > for this or ask me; I'll look around for my link. Well, I'm using LILO. I want to create a proper rescue disk, and I used the mkboot utility to do so. It told me that it created a proper disk, but when I tried to boot off of it, I got a kernel panic with a message that stated that there was not a proper root file system. I did the boot by typing "linux" and also "linux root=/dev/sda2". Both resulted in the same error. I don't know if this matters, but there are no /boot/boot*.b files on my system. The mkboot utility seems to be looking for a /boot/boot.b file, although it doesn't give me an error. But is that a problem? > [ ... ] > > -- > Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > prepBut nI vrbLike adjHungarian! qWhat's artThe adjBig nProblem? > -- alec flett @netscape -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] God bless you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
