[plug] SATA drives on another system

[Daniel Pittman]

"Jon L. Miller" <jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au> writes:

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> Andrew,
> I'm using Debian Sarge.

Then the process is the same: boot from a distribution rescue disk and
either use the repair process offered, or chroot into your environment
and rebuild the initrd image using the distribution tools.

Use the mkinitrd tool to do the later; read the documentation to make
sure you know what you need to do since it isn't very smart and requires
manual configuration to work.


Um, and you will probably find your life becomes a lot more pleasant if
you move to etch or etch-and-a-half, which feature the ability to
identify partitions by UUID or LABEL, as well as a much smarter
initramfs based boot system.

Regards,
        Daniel

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> 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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>>
>>
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>> Andrew Howell
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