I had a rather odd problem. I have an all SCSI system that includes 2 disks, 1 burner, and 1 cd-rom. A few days ago, one of my HDs stopped working. It can't spin up, but is still identified by the SCSI Bios and by Linux. When I try to boot Linux, it tries to spin up the drive but since the drive can't spin up it waits forever. I can boot to windows however. When I remove the drive from the chain, I can't boot ANYTHING. I get the lilo prompt, and no matter what OS i tell it to boot, it basically hangs. I can ctrl-alt-del to reboot, so it's not a hard hand, and the drive light comes on and stays on. I have tried booting with a rescue disk and only one HD, but when it does the partition check on the HD, the SCSI bus continually timesout and resets. I booted with the install CD and am able to mount the partition, although it takes it an unsually long time to do so. I can see all my data. I tried to rerun lilo, but all that happened was the disk light on the chasis would come one. Is there any reason why I can't boot when the bad HD is removed? Does lilo keep track of the HW in the machine or something? I didn't think so because I have removed HDs before without problem. Can anyone help me figure out what's wrong so I can boot into Linux? Ideally, I'd like to be able to remove the bad drive from my machine, but at this point I'll settle for being able to boot Linux. The drive may be going, although I don't see much indication, and non of my data is backed up. Go figure this would happen a day or so before I was to do that. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. TIA.
Rob
