Pedro Bezunartea Lopez wrote:
Tim wrote:
You, now, have two SATA drives plugged in at the same time? For
interest's sake, what happens if you swap their data connectors
around? I would have expected something like that to be the solution.
Thanks Tim. Yes, I have both drives plugged in at the same time. I haven't
tried to swap the connectors yet. I wanted to have the new disk be sda
because the old disk is failing and will probably be replaced soon, so I
didn't want to have the new disk changing from sdb to sda when the bad
disk fails. In any case, what would that test accomplish? it'll probably
swap linux, and grub drive names.
Hadders wrote:
Umm, I think you'll find the problem goes deeper than that. When you did
a fresh install, the other drive didn't exist.
So Fedora LABELLED your new partitions the SAME as the old disks.
(...)
That will list all the paritions. sda is Port 0 on the mainboard, sdb is
Port 1 You can then type e2label /dev/sda(x) where x is the number
corresponding to your linux partitions.
This will simply LIST the volume labels
You should only have ONE root (/), so to relabel it, the command is the
same, but with the new label on the end, e.g e2label /dev/sda3 / will
relabel parition 3 as root (/)
Hope that helps
Thanks Hadders, that was one of the problems which I already fixed by
changing the grub.conf file so it doesn't use the LABEL parameter: kernel
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 ro root=/dev/sda5
More details:
The disk sda is plugged in the SATA 2, and sdb in the SATA 1 (!!) of the
mainboard.
Mainboard: QDI K8V800 VIA K8T800 VT8237 chipset
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ processor
RAM: 1GB
>From dmesg I get the following for SATA:
scsi0 : sata_via
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 156301488 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 16
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
scsi1 : sata_via
ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata2.00: ATA-6, max UDMA/133, 156301488 sectors: LBA48
ata2.00: ata2: dev 0 multi count 16
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
And from cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST380211AS Rev: 3.AA
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA Model: ST380013AS Rev: 3.18
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
The disk connected at scsi0 (ATA-7) is sda, and the one connected to scsi1
(ATA-6) is sdb.
I'm not sure which information is relevant to make sense of all this.
Thanks again,
Pedro.
As a side note did you jump the SATAII disk to be SATAII mode or SATAI?
I know that my Seagate disks can jumpered by default to run in SATAI
Places to check for names include, /boot/grub/grub.conf (root=) and
/etc/fstab.
Also I found recently that the initrd has a reference to names and swap
in there too
You can unpack your initrd and look at the init file for those. (where
initrd-xxx.img is the name of the current booting initrd)
>mkdir /tmp/myinitrd
> cp /boot/initrd-xxxx.img /tmp/myinitrd/theinitrd.img.gz
> gunzip /tmp/myinitrd/theinitrd.img.gz
> cpio -i --make-directories < /tmp/myinitrd/theinitrd.img
> less /tmp/myinitrd/init
If you do want to make changes
> rm /tmp/myinitrd/theinitrd.img
> cd /tmp/myinitrd/
> find . | cpio -o -c | gzip -9 > /boot/mynewinitrd.img
Then change grub to point to this, rather than overwriting the other one
(for now)
