-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:50:50 -0700 Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 16 March 2006 05:24, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Booting into my normal Sarge with lilo hangs at the start with the > > drive connected. > > Oh, dear! Sarge is doing this too. > > > If Knoppix has absolutely no problems, I believe my problems are all > > software related. Knoppix finds it as /dev/sda. I created ext2 > > partitions 1-7, no problems. I was unable to run lilo from Knoppix: > > got errors that he could not find the right device mapper. > > > > Anybody have a clue as to what to google for, or what to do next to > > get a bootloader to run with the drive connected? > > It's software, all right. The installer is setting things up in a way > that is trashed by something during the boot process. Things are > moved around and drives are renamed. Knoppix is seeing your drive(s) > correctly because it's booting the CD -- if your system could get > through the boot process, it'd see things correctly too. > > If I were you, I'd try to install from an old CD set. This has > happened in just the past few weeks. You might want to try woody. It > worked. Woody will not recognize SATA drives. I would try a "modprobe dm_mod" in Knoppix, then mount /, with /boot mounted inside of it, if they are on different partitions. Now chroot into / and run the installed copy of lilo. This usually works for me, even if it spits a warning or two. HTH, Jacob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEGaaMkpJ43hY3cTURAsT+AJ4zdqGtmUiETk0do0UsmeSR//+cKQCfQUS4 Qs9k9XrrBQEdX04JSaA/9vI= =XajI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
