Re: new hard drive install

1999-07-01 Thread Brad
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, charles kaufman wrote: > > Hi > > Not necessary. Recently i repartitioned my HD, moved Linux from hda2 to > > hda1. Never had any trouble after i restored my filesystem from backups > > and reran lilo (after editing lilo.conf and fstab) > > I did almost that. Instead of res

Re: new hard drive install

1999-07-01 Thread charles kaufman
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, David Wright wrote: >> > Yes it really says FAT 12 > > ... which you presumably don't have. (Actually I just saw my Certainly not due to anything I did (on purpose, that is). > very first FAT12 partition yesterday when I was mending someone's > disk geometry settings. It

Re: new hard drive install

1999-07-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > > > Yes. When you copy a kernel (e.g. I copy /boot/vmlinuz to > > c:\loadlin\zimage for loadlin to boot from dos) you need to rdev it. ^^^ > > Typerdev kernel-imageto see what it'

Re: new hard drive install

1999-07-01 Thread David Wright
Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: > >> > Yes it really says FAT 12 ... which you presumably don't have. (Actually I just saw my very first FAT12 partition yesterday when I was mending someone's disk geometry settings. It was 9MB in size, which I'

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-30 Thread charles kaufman
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: >> > Yes it really says FAT 12 > > What does Linux "fdisk -l" show? Here it is. The segmentation fault at the end is part of the output.(not encouraging) The disk is not all partitioned. fdisk -l The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1027. This is

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-30 Thread charles kaufman
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote:> > > Check the boot= in LILO. I just recently had similar problems and it turned > out that I was writing my new lilo to /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/hda. Thanks. I've tried each of those and get the same error either way. Chuck Kaufman

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-30 Thread charles kaufman
Hi > Not necessary. Recently i repartitioned my HD, moved Linux from hda2 to > hda1. Never had any trouble after i restored my filesystem from backups > and reran lilo (after editing lilo.conf and fstab) I did almost that. Instead of restoring from backups I had the old and the new hard drives

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-30 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 05:27:59PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, charles kaufman wrote: > > > I partitioned the new drive with hda1 as dos, hda2 as linux native, hda3 > > as linux swap. I copied (only) dos c: to hda1, and all of the linux > > to hda2. I altered lilo.conf to reflect the

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread Brad
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Charles Kaufman wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > > > I think that may change everything. Allowing for typos, because you > > copied that off the

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread Brad
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > Yes. When you copy a kernel (e.g. I copy /boot/vmlinuz to > c:\loadlin\zimage for loadlin to boot from dos) you need to rdev it. > Typerdev kernel-imageto see what it's set to and > rdev kernel-image /dev/hda2to set it. This saves having to te

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread Charles Kaufman
Hi Thanks again. On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > I think that may change everything. Allowing for typos, because you > copied that off the screen, did it really say FAT 12? It look

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello again > > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > > > > > > Is there somewhere in the kernel that remembers it used to boot fro

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread charles kaufman
Hello again On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > > > Is there somewhere in the kernel that remembers it used to boot from > > /dev/hda3?> > Yes. When you copy a kernel (e.g. I cop

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi > Thanks Brad. > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: > > > > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > > > It's still trying to mount root from hda3. i don't know why, since you say > > you've checked and rechecked to make sure /etc/

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread charles kaufman
Hi Thanks Brad. On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: > > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > It's still trying to mount root from hda3. i don't know why, since you say > you've checked and rechecked to make sure /etc/lilo.conf is correct and > you've run lilo with the correct set

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-28 Thread Brad
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, charles kaufman wrote: > I partitioned the new drive with hda1 as dos, hda2 as linux native, hda3 > as linux swap. I copied (only) dos c: to hda1, and all of the linux > to hda2. I altered lilo.conf to reflect these changes > and ran lilo; I changed fstab. I also ran mkswap.

new hard drive install

1999-06-28 Thread charles kaufman
Hi. I am trying to switch my debian 2.0 to a new hard drive. It was on a drive partitioned with dos on hda1 and hda2 and linux native and linux swap on hda3 and hda4 resp.; I partitioned the new drive with hda1 as dos, hda2 as linux native, hda3 as linux swap. I copied (only) dos c: to hda1, and