Re: [OT] No swap device? was: how to restore LILO/partition table

[M. Fioretti]

On Sun, May 30, 2004 15:23:14 PM +0200, M. Fioretti
([e-mail]) wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 2004 05:11:02 AM -0700, Mick Mearns ([e-mail]) wrote:
> > Can you remove the hard drive and install from a desktop using an
> > adapter?
> > You should be able to clear the cmos somehow.
> > Do you have the utilty software that came with it?
>
> Still more details:
>
> When it boots, it ends by saying
>  Fatal error by reading from hard disk
>  Save To Disk feature is disabled
>
> Marco.

Partial success.

I have (writing it down also to not forget it...)

previously, during install I had:
       partitioned /dev/hdb1 as linux swap
       partitioned /dev/hdb2 as linux native, ext3

now I booted with tomsrtbt
(hard drive becomes hda, since cdrom is not in anymore, replaced by
floppy)

mounted /dev/hda2 to /mnt
chroot /mnt
edited /lilo.conf, changing all hda to hdb, hdb2 to hda2
run lilo

Now LILO *does* start and boot linux, but it stops like so:

Checking root filesystem
Possibly non-existent or swap device?
fsck.ext3: no such device or address while trung to open /dev/hdb2
    		     [failed]

*** an error occurred during the file system check.
*** dropping to a shell. The system will reboot when you leave the
*** shell

Now, I guess I have to redo the substitution hdb -> hda somewhere
else, but where?

Ciao,
    Marco F.