On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home > Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system > - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge > installation set as a rescue disk to access hdb and run lilo to convert > this box to a dual boot box. > > boot: rescue=/dev/hdb5 failed. > > During the load > > "Partition Check > hdd > hde: hde1 > hdf: hdf1,hdf2 < hdf5, hdf6, hdf7, hdf8 >" > > so I tried. > > boot: rescue=/dev/hdf5 > > which stopped with > > "Warning: Unable to open and initial console > Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing an init= option to the > kernel" > > I don't know why the letters changed and what init option I should use. > The hard drives are master and slave on ide 1. There are two > connectors, ide 1 and ide 2 on the motherboard. > > The motherboard is KA3 MVP and the processor is an AMD Athlon 64 3800. > > (Note: Only the Debian Sarge disc knows what's out there. My Knoppix > CD, my bbc-2.1 CD, my Damn Small Linux CD and two Debian boot floppies > all fail.) > > How can I regain access to my Debian system? > Most computers with ide on-board can use 4 hd's: hda,hdb,hdc,hdd if you have a second ide card, it uses hde,hdf,hdg,hdh so somehow your machine is seeing hdb as hdf. The way I found to fix this is to use 'labels'. They specify the disk without using 'changing' identifiers. if you use a live cd or similar and type: ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ it will show the 'id' label and what it points to: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-QUANTUM_FIREBALLlct15_20_613025126527-part1 -> ../../hda1 so if I used /dev/hda1, I'd replace it with /dev/disk/by-id/ata-QUANTUM_FIREBALLlct15_20_613025126527-part1 Its a bit longer, but if I move the disk hda to hdb, the 'by-id' will still find it. So read up on lilo or grub about the syntax.
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