Hello,
while trying to install on a laptop, I messed up something. It used to have "/dev/hda" (hard drive) and /dev/hdb (CD-rom).
However it happened, at a certain point during install I started seeing messages that we would install to hdb, ie the hard drive had become slave device.
Now LILO goes "07 07" ad libitum, I guess because it is told to start from the cdrom. Ie, cdrom had become IDE master, hard disk had become slave. The BIOS reported the same thing.
The problem is that now, no matter how much I play with BIOS, anytime I power up it says again that Master is C: hard drive. And secondary is D:...another drive. So now, I guess, the BIOS itself goes into panic, as the secondary is a cdrom, other geometry and all, and freezes if I let it continue.
Now, can this be something I screw up by pressing the wrong key while reformatting (NOT repartitioning) or going through LILO steps? What?
And should/can I put things back to normal with some rescue floppy? Which one, and what should I do exactly? So that the hard drive returns to be seen as /dev/hda, and I can restart to install?
TIA, Marco Fioretti
--- "M. Fioretti" mfioretti@mclink.it wrote:
The problem is that now, no matter how much I play with BIOS, anytime I power up it says again that Master is C: hard drive. And secondary is D:...another drive. So now, I guess, the BIOS itself goes into panic, as the secondary is a cdrom, other geometry and all, and freezes if I let it continue.
Now, can this be something I screw up by pressing the wrong key while reformatting (NOT repartitioning) or going through LILO steps? What?
And should/can I put things back to normal with some rescue floppy? Which one, and what should I do exactly? So that the hard drive returns to be seen as /dev/hda, and I can restart to install?
TIA, Marco Fioretti
Hey Marco; how are the drive jumpers set? I am building a new system myself and noticed that the hard drive came configured as "CS" os cable select. Normally it would be "master"
Try changing your hard drive to "master" and your CD to "slave". Are they on the same cable or do they share a cable?
If on seperate cables then both can be "master" Try clearing your cmos and detecting them again.
Mick M.
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On Sun, May 30, 2004 03:05:53 AM -0700, Mick Mearns (off_by_1@yahoo.com) wrote:
The problem is that now, no matter how much I play with BIOS, anytime I power up it says again that Master is C: hard drive. And secondary is D:...another drive. So now, I guess, the BIOS itself goes into panic, as the secondary is a cdrom, other geometry and all, and freezes if I let it continue.
Now, can this be something I screw up by pressing the wrong key while reformatting (NOT repartitioning) or going through LILO steps? What?
And should/can I put things back to normal with some rescue floppy? Which one, and what should I do exactly? So that the hard drive returns to be seen as /dev/hda, and I can restart to install?
Hey Marco; how are the drive jumpers set?
Nothing changed at that level. I did not mess with anything hardware in the laptop
I am building a new system myself and noticed that the hard drive came configured as "CS" os cable select. Normally it would be "master"
Try changing your hard drive to "master" and your CD to "slave". Are they on the same cable or do they share a cable?
I don't know how they are wired internally, but it worked fine, and I didn't open it... and trying to change hd to master, cd to slave is exactly what I'm trying to do from BIOS, and is not accepted. It lets me set it, then restarts, finds two masters, and goes into total confusion.
Ciao, Marco F.
Hey Marco; how are the drive jumpers set?
Nothing changed at that level. I did not mess with anything hardware in the laptop
Sorry - I did not realize it was a laptop.
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?
Mick M.
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On Sun, May 30, 2004 05:11:02 AM -0700, Mick Mearns (off_by_1@yahoo.com) wrote:
Hey Marco; how are the drive jumpers set?
Nothing changed at that level. I did not mess with anything hardware in the laptop
Sorry - I did not realize it was a laptop.
Can you remove the hard drive and install from a desktop using an adapter?
Not possible, sorry.
You should be able to clear the cmos somehow.
What do you mean exactly by "cmos"? All I can do to it is to either mess with the BIOS setup interface, or do stuff bootinf off a floppy. Or not?
Do you have the utilty software that came with it?
No...
On Sun, May 30, 2004 05:11:02 AM -0700, Mick Mearns (off_by_1@yahoo.com) wrote:
Can you remove the hard drive and install from a desktop using an adapter?
I have just discovered, unmounting the CD-ROM drive, that it has a Master/Slave switch. It doesn't help, however. If I put it to slave, the bios still says:
Master C: 1443 KB Slave D: 1443 KB
Being "D:" a CD-ROM, everything is still messed up. At the same time, it says at boot (if it doesn't panic) "operating system not found". I must have screwed the boot sector, MBR, whatever. How can I restore it?
Ciao, Marco F.
On Sun, May 30, 2004 05:11:02 AM -0700, Mick Mearns (off_by_1@yahoo.com) 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.
On Sun, May 30, 2004 15:23:14 PM +0200, M. Fioretti (mfioretti@mclink.it) wrote:
On Sun, May 30, 2004 05:11:02 AM -0700, Mick Mearns (off_by_1@yahoo.com) 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.
On Sun, May 30, 2004 18:38:36 PM +0200, M. Fioretti (mfioretti@mclink.it) wrote:
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?
Solved: booting with the floppy and changing in /etc/fstab all hdb to hda
Ciao, Marco F.