9 Oct
2010
9 Oct
'10
6:27 a.m.
I tried this and I did not get to a shell. I can examine the files in /etc
from the OS on the spare disk, but I am not expert
enough to work out where
to really look.
Regards
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Brad Parker
Sent: 05 October 2010 16:31
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Repairing Debian on an Alpha 433au
You might try "init=/bin/sh" to keep any init scripts from running. That
way
you can piece together what it's trying to do,
tracing from /etc/inittab
Those errors look like the kernel is up but some init script is unhappy.
-brad
On Oct 3, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Rob Jarratt wrote:
I have actually tried both ways, with and without
DK0 plugged in. That
particular boot I sent the log for had both disks plugged in
Mind you the spare disk that is in there now is DK0. That replaced a
disk at
DKA100 which had VMS on it, which I had to take out temporarily to
make way for the temporary disk to put the second instance of Debian
on. So when the machine was working I had VMS on DKA100 and Debian on
DKA200. Now I have the temporary Debian on DK0 and the "proper"
Debian
on DKA200.
I will try your suggestion when I next get the chance to test, which
won't be for a few days now. I may also try putting the VMS disk back
in so I have
DKA100 and DKA200 again, not sure if this will make a difference.
Regards
Rob
Brad Parker
Heeltoe Consulting
781-483-3101
http://www.heeltoe.com
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Finnegan
Sent: 03 October 2010 21:16
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Repairing Debian on an Alpha 433au
On Sunday, October 03, 2010, Rob Jarratt wrote:
first disk
> (DKA0?) when you try booting from the 2nd disk (DKA200)?
>
> Maybe try telling aboot root=/dev/sda3 for your root device instead.
>
> Pat
> --
> Purdue University Research Computing --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/
> The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org The 433au I have came with an instance of Debian
which has DECnet
installed on it, I am not sure what version of Debian it is. After a
power outage the superblock on DKA200 was corrupted. I managed to
install another instance of Debian (3.1r0) on DK0 and run e2fsck -p
on the DKA200 disk to fix it. However when I try to boot the
original Debian instance it says it can't find /dev/sdb3. In the new
instance of Debian I can mount the sdb3 disk without issue. Below is
the output on the console when it fails to boot. There is a message
about the driver sd needing to be updated, but this was a working
system so I am not convinced that is the problem. Can anyone offer
any insight as to why this will still not boot?
The kernel is only seeing one disk. By any chance, are you pulling
the