Here is the first posting that I sent out, in case you missed it:
>Please respond to this via e-mail, since I was out for several days and
>unsubscribed to the lists and just resubscribed, which means I may not see
>an answer if you response to the mail list.
>
>I get back from the trip and turn on the computer. About 20 minutes after
>it is up and running (I am at working typing this), one of the hard disks
>loses its cookies. It happens to not be /, /usr or swap. But, because it
>is still in /etc/fstab, I cannot get linux to boot when I disconnect the
>disk. I get the "L" in LILO and then a endless supply of 01010101010101....
>If I leave the disk connected, it tries to work with it, but fsck goes on
>forever. I can't cntl-C out of it either :-(
>
>Using a backup boot floppy, it only sees hdc1 and not hdc2 and hdc3. So,
>when I boot single and after it mounts root, the damn system just hangs there.
>
>So, I come to work and make a supplemental disk (I didn't need it before
>because I did an upgrade from 4.2 -> 5.0). After the supplemental disk is
>loaded, it does a bunch of gunzips. From what I can see, gunzip complains
>about an unexpected EOF. Then the system complains about a bunch of files
>missing and proceeds to reboot the computer. I'd supply what the exact errors
>are, but I can't, because the damn system reboots.
>
>Needless to say I am pissed.
>
>Booting single user is supposed to only mount / and /usr. Why the Hell
>is it trying to work with hdd?
>
>What the Hell do I do to boot this thing so that I can get /etc/fstab
>edited so that I can get hdd1 removed from the list?
>
>BTW, booting "emergency" wasn't any better.
>
>Also, why is LILO upset because hdd is no longer attached? It has nothing
>to do with the boot process.
>
>Please do not suggest anything to do with the 5.0 CD-ROM. I loaned it out,
>so it is not available to me.
>
>Thanks is advance, and remember to e-mail me the suggestions.
Today I tried to find the LILO howto at Redhat's ftp site and was not able to.
Where is the HOWTO that explains the ins and outs of LILO, especially what
can be placed on the command line at boot time and what the errors mean?
When booting emergency, or single, I get the following at the end, before it
hangs forever:
Partition check:
hda: hda1
hdc: hdc1
[...]
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
It does a newline and then hangs. The problem is that there is a hdc2 and
a hdc3, where hdc2 is /usr and hdc3 is swap. The partition check got it
wrong.
If I try the rescue mode from the installation floppies, after the supplemental
disk is loaded, I see the following (I hit scroll-lock):
cat: error in loading shared libraries
libresolv.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gunzip: /tmp/libext2fs.so.2.3.gz: unexpected end of file
cat: error in loading shared libraries
libresolv.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gunzip: /tmp/libnsl-2.0.5.so.2.3.gz: unexpected end of file
cat: error in loading shared libraries
libresolv.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gunzip: /tmp/libnss_files-2.0.5.so.gz: unexpected end of file
cat: error in loading shared libraries
libresolv.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
gunzip: /tmp/libuuid.so.1.1.gz: unexpected end of file
chmod: libext2fs.so.2: No such file or directory
chmod: libext2fs.so.2.3: No such file or directory
chmod: libnsl.so.1: No such file or directory
chmod: libnss_files.so.1: No such file or directory
chmod: libuuid.so.1: No such file or directory
chmod: libuuid.so.1.1: No such file or directory
sending termination signals...
It then proceeds to reboot the system.
If anyone has any clue as to what it will take to get Linux to reboot,
please let me know. If you want to talk on the phone, interactively,
then call collect to 608-274-2838 tonight. I have to come into work to
read the e-mail and then go home and try stuff.
Thanks, in advance.
MB
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