thanks again, I had to remove all but the /home partitions on hdb to get
this work. The bad drive contains valuable info. This drive kills the
boot process before it starts, I need a data recovery service. Anyone
know a local service?
Thanks
DM
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 17:27, thor_consulting@yahoo.com wrote:
> bad labels will get you every time...
>
> i prepend the machine name to my labels:
>
> /dev/hda1: asgaard:/
> /dev/hda2: asgaard:/usr
> /dev/hda3: asgaard:/var
>
> the fstab entry should be:
>
> /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb ext2 defaults 1 2
> # or
> # /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb ext3 defaults 1 2
>
> you might want to boot into single-user mode and hand edit the fstab files
> on both systems and definitely create a GRUB floppy.
>
>
>
> thor
>
> mailto:thor_consulting@yahoo.com
> http://www.geocities.com/thor_consulting/
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis McDonald" <dmcdon3@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: "SLUG" <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 17:03
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] data from old master
>
>
> > Thanks for the suggestions
> > Trouble starts at
> > Mounting local filesystem: mount Label=/boot duplicate not mounted
> > appears as if the /boot on the old hda, now hdb, is recognized
> > I am using lilo
> > I tried adding to fstab
> > /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb noauto
> > with no apparent change
> > your suggestion for fstab returned errors
> > any other suggestions before I try grub?
> > DM
> >
> > On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 07:37, thor_consulting@yahoo.com wrote:
> > > what are the errors? unable to mount...?
> > >
> > > does the /etc/fstab have the device hardcoded as /dev/hda?
> > >
> > > ^
> > >
> > > if this is what's happenin' then drop into single user mode and edit the
> > > fstab file to match where the HD is:
> > >
> > > primary master /dev/hda
> > > primary slave /dev/hdb
> > > secondary master /dev/hdc
> > > secondary slave /dev/hdd
> > >
> > > hopefully you are using grub and you can edit the grub.conf (menu.lst)
> file
> > > (in /boot/grub or wherever) to reflect the changes.
> > >
> > > if not (lilo?) then create a grub boot floppy and learn how to boot with
> > > grub
> > >
> > > good luck
> > >
> > > thor
> > >
> > > mailto:thor_consulting@yahoo.com
> > > http://www.geocities.com/thor_consulting/
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Dennis McDonald" <dmcdon3@tampabay.rr.com>
> > > To: "SLUG" <slug@nks.net>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 00:04
> > > Subject: [SLUG] data from old master
> > >
> > >
> > > > I had a problem with my previous configuration. The slave was stopping
> > > > the boot process at the beginning.. id of drives. Somewhere along the
> > > > line, while troubleshooting this, the master stopped booting too. I
> have
> > > > since installed new HD and OS and need help trying to recover what I
> > > > have on my old hda. I have tried making it a slave, hdb, and master ,
> > > > hdc, but I get boot errors.
> > > > Is there a way I can boot with this drive connected?
> > > > Dennis
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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