On Thu, 18 May 2000, linda hanigan wrote:
> Hi all,
> Thanks for all the help on my hard drive problems. The shop that built it
> replaced the hard drive and mother board because it misidentifyed the new
> drive too. When I did my restore from cpio I had a few strange things
> happen. First It had some failures with shutdown. I think this was caused
> because I just did a minimal install since it was an easy way to format the
> disk and install Lilo therefore the old systems files would have had
> scripts to shutdown things that hadn't started. I got Ll on reboot. Did an
> upgrade to reinstall Lilo this worked great. (anybody know why I needed
> this step?) Finally the weirdest my restore put /home partition files in
> /usr/local/lib partition and /usr/local/lib in /home I copied them back
> and everything seems to be fine but was wondering why and if there is
> a better way when I have to do this next time?
> Thanks
> Linda
>
Hi Linda,
The reasion you had the problem with LILO is probably because the
restore put a new copy of your kernel on the disk, and it was not in the
same location as the one LILO knew about. (Phsyical location on the
disk.) The boot loader part of LILO doesn't know about file systems. The
part of LILO that runs under Linux just tells the loader part the track
and sector location of the kernel.
Now, as for the problem with files being restored to the wrong
locations, it depends on the software you used to restore. Did you change
the partation numbers when you rebuilt the system? Or maybe when you did
the re-install to fix LILO, did you swap the mount points? If the /home
and the /usr/local/lib partations are the same size, and easy fix is to
change the entries in /etc/fstab.
Mikkel
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