Re: [SLE] Install mistake
From: John S. Wolter (johnswolter_at_wolterworks.com)
Date: 11/12/03
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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:48:30 -0500 To: Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk>
Sid, thank you for your advise. It appears I've solved the disk switch
from /dev/hdb to /dev/hda. Here it is
1. I booted using CD 1 setting up for text mode.
2. I choose Manual Installation
3. Choose to update and existing install
4. Run through the dialogs looking for when a new MBR is going to be
written
5. Write a new GRUB to the MBR.
6. Reboot
7. Try it to see if that works for you or not.
The Info panel in Midnight Commander identifies the source filesystem as
/dev/hda... Still some things seem 'Spooky'. All the hardware must be
updated. Not all the Yast->Hardware system parts appear correct. I am
left wondering about applications that may be wrong.
I've decided to reinstall from scratch. Too bad, it takes up to four
hours. I think that is way too long. My next EMail to the list will be
about redoing an install after an unusual event. Also, I want to here
about if there are ways to put the CD's on say a hard drive and automate
installs. I want to sell LINUX light servers but have to find a ways to
cut customizing and rebuilding systems.
Sid Boyce wrote:
> All may not be lost. Sounds like a permissions thing to do with ACL's,
> perhaps you could put the drive back into the other machine and use
> setfacl to reset the permissions, then you should be able to write to
> the drive.
> /boot/grub/menu.lst probably needs editing with the disk in the new
> machine so it points to (hd0,0), then you would need to do a
> grub-install /dev/hda.
> I've never used the CD for repair, I have timos rescuecd ( search for
> rescuecd on freshmeat.net) which I've used with SuSE and Mandrake. I
> boot it, "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt", "chroot /mnt", edit menu.lst
> "grub-install /dev/hda" and reboot.
> Regards
> Sid.
>
> John S. Wolter wrote:
>
>> We'll I've backed myself into a corner during 9.0 install. I put a
>> 2nd HD, /dev/hdb, into an exist machine and installed 9.0. All went
>> well. So next I was going to put that 2nd HD into another machine as
>> /dev/hda. I thought I would edit grub.conf and fstab and it would
>> boot. Right? Not exactly. No doubt I'm about to learn new things.
>>
>> I booted manually the /root partition from the CD and manually
>> mounted the filesystems. Then I discovered I'm not able to edit and
>> save grub.conf or fstab. OK.... Then I noticed using Midnight
>> Commanders Info panel that the files believe they are on /dev/hdb.
>> I've enabled ACL's & Extended Attributes but I don't know if that
>> has anything to do with the problem.
>>
>> Well folks is it reinstall time or is there and easy way out of my
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