[CS-FSLUG] mini-ITX boot problem

[christiansource at ofb.biz]

>> My guess is, that your CD-Drive was recognized as "Primary Master" and
>> got hda. Than your CF-Card was hdb. Linux installed on hdb and wrote
>> into the boot manager that it would find the root filesystem in /dev/hdb
>>
>> By removing the CD-ROM drive the CF-Card became hda and hdb could not be
>> found anymore.

Admittedly, I've come late to this thread, but if the OS has already been
installed to the CF card and the issue is truly just that the device name
for the CF adapter is changing after removing the CD-ROM drive, wouldn't it
be easier to simply hook the CD-ROM drive back up, boot into any live CD
environment, mount the CF card, and edit fstab and grub.conf?

If I've misunderstood the problem, feel free to ignore me. :)

Andrew

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 02:26:33 -0600, Ron Thompson <ron.t at xplornet.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 02 April 2009 00:26, Marco Tedaldi wrote:
>> Ron Thompson schrieb:
>> > I spoke too soon.  It doesn't boot properly after swapping the cards,
> it
>> > gets started and them comes back with Checking root file system
>> > fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hdb2
>> > FAILED
>> >
>> > I'm out of my league.
>> >
>> > Not much point in having a mni-ITX if you have to duct tape an old
> CD-RW
>> > onto the case just to get it to boot :-)
>>
>> It seems there is the Problem.
>>
>> The order of the drives ind Linux is:
>> 1. hda
>> 2. hdb
>> 3. hdc
>> 4. hdd
>>
>> And from the Bios:
>> Primary Master
>> Primary Slave
>> Secondary Master
>> Secondary Slave
>>
>> The Problem arises, when the Order of the drives is changed or a drive
>> whis is "between others" is removed.
>>
>> My guess is, that your CD-Drive was recognized as "Primary Master" and
>> got hda. Than your CF-Card was hdb. Linux installed on hdb and wrote
>> into the boot manager that it would find the root filesystem in /dev/hdb
>>
>> By removing the CD-ROM drive the CF-Card became hda and hdb could not be
>> found anymore.
>>
>> First make sure, your CF-Card which will get the OS is Primary Master.
>> This will save you some trouble. The CD-Rom drive must be the last one.
>>
>> I never use Cable Select but put my drives in a defined state (either
>> master or slave)
>> I'd suggest that you connect the first cf-card as master to the first
>> IDE-Channel (Primary Master). The second Card shall become Master on the
>> Second Channel (Secondary Master) and the CD-ROM get's configured as
>> slave and is connected to the second channel (Secondary Slave). this
>> setup should give you the best performance fo the future (when the
>> CD-Drive is not connected anymore) and keep you out of trouble.
>>
>> Than install the OS and look if it works.
>>
>> If it does not work please tell the error message or the last line you
>> see on the screen.
>>
>> kruemi
> 
> Thanks Kruemi,
> 
>     I'm sure that you are correct, but I don['t know if there is a simple

> solution as the D945GCLF motherboard does not have a secondary channel. 
> The 
> board does have two SATA ports but I do not have a SATA CD that I can use
> to 
> install the OS.   Startech have a slimline CD 50 pin IDE to SATA adapter
> that 
> would work but it is not yet available.  Either I can buy a new slimline
> SATA 
> CD (so it will fit the case), or another possibility would be to see if I
> can 
> install the OS from an external source such as a USB drive.  One of these

> should work?
> 
>      Ron
> 
>
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