From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 01:40:15 +0200 From: Goetz Bock Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM on root, Kernel panic: "I have no root and I must scream" Message-ID: <20010428014015.D10716@dragon.blacknet.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from Evan.Day@SUMMITSITE.COM on Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 03:06:51PM -0700 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: To: linux-lvm@sistina.com --E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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= =20 > id 6 (boot disk) and /dev/sda is scsi id 5, even though the SCSI BIOS=20 > 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=20 0 (the boot disk) and 1 (the other) ... > I have a pair of IDE drives on the system, too, and LILO always =2E.. or simply boot from the IDE disks? > complains that /dev/sdb isn't the first disk...=20 There is an option for LILO to tell it what the BIOS assumes each disk is. (ReadTheFineManual ;-)) Cu, Goetz. --E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE66gNef5srOMkjkQoRArYTAKDhwVo6vntUkTz454d6Trr9fZnuvACgkxNc 2v0zydb2/EGhYMia2NYP5bI= =bX5y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1--