From: Goetz Bock <bock@blacknet.de>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM on root, Kernel panic: "I have no root and I must scream"
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 01:40:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010428014015.D10716@dragon.blacknet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DC5B1A21E9E7D211B0020090273AD628242BBD@summit15.corvallis.summit>; from Evan.Day@SUMMITSITE.COM on Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 03:06:51PM -0700
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On Fri, Apr 27 '01 at 15:06, Day, Evan wrote:
> Using LILO (21.5 from the stable Debian dist) is sketchy. Sometimes it'll
> boot, other times it just prints "LI" on the screen [ ... ]
Whilt I don't know if this I true, I once read that the letters of LILO
tells you what exactly is broken with your setup.
> I think I was a bit confused because it turns out that /dev/sdb is scsi
> id 6 (boot disk) and /dev/sda is scsi id 5, even though the SCSI BIOS
> reports id 6 as HD0 and id 5 as HD1.
You're asking for trouble here. Why don't you fix your disk's IDs to be
0 (the boot disk) and 1 (the other) ...
> I have a pair of IDE drives on the system, too, and LILO always
... or simply boot from the IDE disks?
> complains that /dev/sdb isn't the first disk...
There is an option for LILO to tell it what the BIOS assumes each disk
is. (ReadTheFineManual ;-))
Cu,
Goetz.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-27 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-27 22:06 [linux-lvm] LVM on root, Kernel panic: "I have no root and I must scream" Day, Evan
2001-04-27 23:40 ` Goetz Bock [this message]
2001-04-29 19:18 ` Terje Kvernes
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2001-04-27 21:39 Day, Evan
2001-04-27 22:00 ` AJ Lewis
2001-04-28 7:59 ` Luca Berra
2001-04-28 17:43 ` Evan Day
2001-04-27 20:48 Day, Evan
2001-04-27 21:11 ` Luca Berra
2001-04-27 7:08 Evan Day
2001-04-27 20:47 ` Luca Berra
2001-04-27 21:33 ` Goetz Bock
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