[plug] SATA drives on another system

[Jon L. Miller]

Andrew,
I'm using Debian Sarge.

Jon
On Thu, January 29, 2009 14:34, Andrew Howell wrote:
> I'd say your initrd image doesn't have the correct SATA driver now.
> Are you using Fedora or RHEL?
>
> I think you need to boot off a fedora/redhat rescue cd and then chroot to
> your root partition and run mkinitrd to make a new initrd.
> You probably need to edit /etc/modprobe.conf and change the
> scsi-controller
> alias to use the correct sata driver.
>
> Andrew
>
> 2009/1/29 Jon L. Miller <jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au>
>
>> I've had to put a pair of SATA drives on another system (motherboard
>> failure) and now I get the following on booting up:
>> /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_sis.o
>> Journalled Block Device driver load
>> pivot_root: No such file or directory
>> sbin/init: 432 Cannot open dev/console: no such file
>> Kernel pani: attempted to kill init
>>
>> >From there it stops, if I go into Grub when it's booting (pressing "e")
>> I
>> issue the commands:
>> Kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/sda1 ro
>> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
>> savedefault
>> boot
>>
>> The savedefault command fails with an invalid command.
>>
>> Anyone know how I can get this server back up and running? It's only for
>> a
>> short time period?
>>
>>
>>
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>> Jon L. Miller MCNE CNE CCNA
>> East Perth, WA 6004
>> WA, Australia
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> Andrew Howell
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Jon L. Miller MCNE CNE CCNA
East Perth, WA 6004
WA, Australia
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