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Hard disk failure
Name: David Date: November 13, 2002 at 12:05:40 Pacific OS: RH7.2?? CPU/Ram: 933/256
Comment:
I had Linux running on a machine and all I did was physically move the location of the box, reconnected all the cables and turned the machine back on. Now it says something like "Boot disk failure. Insert a boot or system disk". Any thoughts?
This is what I'm trying:
So I set up another machine with RH7.2...shutdown the machine and then attached the "bad" hard drive as a slave. How do I get it to "see" the other ("bad") drive? I'm not sure how to mount it. when I do try to mount it, it says "mount: can't find /dev/hdb in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab"
Name: tex Date: November 13, 2002 at 18:35:49 Pacific
Reply:
Ok, what happened to start off is...your boot manager probably grub (assuming you were using redhat default) no longer knows where your drive went. Since you physicaly moved the device to another chain. Ie hda to hdb etc. It will no longer be able to locate the new drive.
If you want to mount the old drive as a slave device, you will have to update your fstab in /etc. You will have to add a line and mount point for each partition you will want to mount.
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