regarding the lilo issue, I'd try install grub onto a floppy, it's a lot saner than lilo
Patrick. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
