"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Donald Brandon wrote: > > > Hey listers: > > > > I need some help (even if it is a point to the right list, in which > > case I am sorry to bother). Recently, we purchased a new system that is > > going to become our team's server. One of my colleagues was tasked with > > getting it set up to do everything we needed out of it. This colleague > > has since left, leaving me to do clean up. Here is what I have. The > > system is a redhat (seawolf) distribution with dual hard drives. The > > last thing I need to do is to repartition the second hard drive into two > > large partitions for data storage. This is where the problem (at least > > for me) comes in. > > > > The sytem requires both hard drives to boot. If you unplug one hard > > drive, it won't boot. If you plug that back in and unplug the other, > > it won't boot. This could cause problems when I go to repartition the > > other drive. I am not by any means an expert when it comes to Linux > > (but I feel I am improving ) ;-) > > > > Here is my lilo.conf: > > > > boot=/dev/sda > > map=/boot/map > > install=/boot/boot.b > > prompt > > timeout=50 > > message=/boot/message > > linear > > default=linux > > > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2smp > > label=linux > > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-2smp.img > > read-only > > root=/dev/sdb7 > > > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 > > label=linux-up > > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-2.img > > read-only > > root=/dev/sdb7 > > > [snip] > > > > I see what is happening. My colleague left the first drive alone which > > contained the boot record and original partitions and partioned the > > second drive to our needs. But now the boot record remains on the drive > > to be used for storage. Is there a way for me to leave the boot record > > on the first drive or should it be moved to the second? Any insight??? > > > > Thanks in advance.. > > DB > > > > > The output of /etc/fstab, or the mount command, and the output of "df > -h" would be helpfull here. Also the output of fdisk -l. Untill we > know what is mounted where, it is hard to say what is needed.
You are right. A couple of good outputs. Unfortunately, df shows that only the second hard drive is mounted : Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb7 3.0G 98M 2.7G 4% / /dev/sdb2 23M 7.8M 13M 36% /boot /dev/sdb1 4.9G 346M 4.3G 8% /home /dev/sdb5 5.9G 1.1G 4.5G 20% /usr /dev/sdb6 16G 23M 14G 1% /usr/local /dev/sdb8 2.0G 21M 1.8G 2% /var and here is fstab : LABEL=/1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/home /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 LABEL=/usr1 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/usr/local /usr/local ext2 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/var /var ext2 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sdb9 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip250.0 auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 fstab (END) > > > The way the system is set up, you will not be able to remove one drive > without editing /etc/fstab. If the system can be set to boot with just > the information on the second drive, you will probably find it simpler > to boot from a floppy, and then edit /etc/lilo.conf, and install lilo to > the MBR of the second drive. If you try and install lilo to the second > drive with both drives installed, it will not work because lilo will > have the wrong BIOS number for the drive after you remove the first > drive. Question: If we determine what partition of sda is being used to boot, could we leave that partition as is and use disk druid to edit the remaining or is this bad???? > > > Now, as far as repartitioning the drives, you can do that wihtout > removing a drive. Exactly what you will have to do depends on how the > drives are partitioned now. You may have a small /boot partition on > /dev/sda2, it is hard to tell. Once we know what is mounted where, and > how full each partition is, there are a lot of options. > > Mikkel > -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
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