Apparently, though unproven, at 18:57 on Saturday 04 June 2011, Alex Schuster did opine thusly:
> Hi there! > > A mother board died, so I put the hard drives into an old spare PC, rebuilt > the kernel via chroot in order to include some necessary drivers, and all > was well. Until I plugged in the 2nd hard drive. Then, the thing reboots > after these messages: > > [...] > VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly on device 8:6 > Freeing unused kernel memory: 304k freed > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > > Instead, I think init should start. When I unplug the drive, it boots fine. Most obvious things first: What does the system present that BIOS as? Is it now trying to boot off the second drive? > > Both drives are partitioned this way: > > sda5: /boot ext2 > sda6: / ext3 > sda7-sda13: LVM > > GRML boots fine with both drives. > > Any ideas? > > Wonko -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
