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I ticked off a Linux box, suggestions?

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ICE_9

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I am moving my boxes into some cheap mATX cases for more space and appear to have pissed one off. All that I have done is removed it from the platform I had it on and reconnected it back to the way it was. Now its getting to a part in the startup where it's looking for hda2 and it time out.

THEIR IS NO HDA2. Only one hard drive on the system. nothing else. I have since set the board to defaults and still the same. It is booting off the hda but why is it looking for hda2 and stopping?

Anyways, it gives me a $ prompt with the previous line being "sh: no job control in this shell"

Commands? info needed?
 
HDA2 would be the second partition of the first hard drive. Most Linux distros have at least 3 partitions. HDA1 as the boot partition, HDA2 as the swap partition, then the remaining space for the OS as either one big HDA3 or multiple partitions.

Can you boot into another live distro and give an fdisk readout of the partitions on the hard drive?
 
Also, make sure you connected your hard drive and optical drive to the same channels they were on before. If your HD was the primary master and now it's the secondary master you'll get messages like that.
 
got a DSL stick going finally. working on getting info. No CDrom was on the drive before.
 
Even if the machine doesn't have an optical drive, the IDE channel is something to check. Also, (this just happened to me today) my Gentoo box won't boot if I plug in my iPod before Grub loads. I'm assuming this holds for any USB storage device.
 
so, I am booted into DSL. I want to run the fdisk command but I believe I need to mount the hard drive so that it sees it as being able to pull up the info. What command should I use to mount the hard drive?
 
ICE_9 said:
so, I am booted into DSL. I want to run the fdisk command but I believe I need to mount the hard drive so that it sees it as being able to pull up the info. What command should I use to mount the hard drive?
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I think it is mount hda#
 
ok. info found. sudo fdisk -l found it.

Partition details:

/hdc1 1-192 82 Linux swap
/hdc2 * 192-2077 83 Linux
/hdc3 2078-4865 83 Linux
 
I can view the fstab. I can't get the network going to post all the info. Anything specific you want posted?
 
ICE_9 said:
ok. info found. sudo fdisk -l found it.

Partition details:

/hdc1 1-192 82 Linux swap
/hdc2 * 192-2077 83 Linux
/hdc3 2078-4865 83 Linux
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hdc means it's probably secondary master, you can either mess with the config or move it to the other IDE channel and see if that fixes it. If not, you'll probably have to boot back into DSL and change the fstab entries to match the drive location.
 
rogue_jedi said:
hdc means it's probably secondary master, you can either mess with the config or move it to the other IDE channel and see if that fixes it. If not, you'll probably have to boot back into DSL and change the fstab entries to match the drive location.
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Ok. that explained it the most. The motherboard only has one PATA channel and one SATA channel on the south bridge. Somehow, it has re-enabled the SATA channel so it put that into the primary spot and bumped the drive into secondary. I guess in part of my "speed up boot time" when I originally setup the system, I made it think the PATA drives were on the primary channel.

So, after some BIOS changes in that area, I am folding SMP again. Thank you all for your help. This was much appreciated.
 
It is definitely second to none. I hope it is still around when I do the next box transition. Another two PCs transfered, one of them new.
 
Dang, he beat me to it. Yeah, it was being mounted as a secondary master. Viewing fstab or using fdisk you can see what is being mounted where.
 
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