[opensuse] Booting Problem After Drive Replacement
Background: I've filled up the 1.0 TB drive on my server with archived DVDs, and needed more space. So I bought a 1.5 TB drive, installed it in an external enclosure, formatted it, copied all the contents of the 1.0 TB drive to it, and now want to replace the old drive in my openSuSE 11.0 server with the new one. What I've done: I figured I might have problems if the old drive were still configured as part of the system, so I stopped sharing it, and used the YaST partitioner module to dismount both it and the external drive. Then I shut down the system. The problem: When I try to restart the system, it goes through the POST, then starts the boot loader which tells me, "Please wait ...". Eventually it stops with "Error 25." Does anyone have an idea what "Error 25" means, and what I should try next? Thanks in advance! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 02 November 2008 12:18:17 pm Jerry Houston wrote:
Background: I've filled up the 1.0 TB drive on my server with archived DVDs, and needed more space. So I bought a 1.5 TB drive, installed it in an external enclosure, formatted it, copied all the contents of the 1.0 TB drive to it, and now want to replace the old drive in my openSuSE 11.0 server with the new one.
What I've done: I figured I might have problems if the old drive were still configured as part of the system, so I stopped sharing it, and used the YaST partitioner module to dismount both it and the external drive. Then I shut down the system.
The problem: When I try to restart the system, it goes through the POST, then starts the boot loader which tells me, "Please wait ...". Eventually it stops with "Error 25."
Does anyone have an idea what "Error 25" means, and what I should try next?
Thanks in advance!
info grub section Troubleshooting subsect. Errors reported by the Stage 2 25 : Disk read error This error is returned if there is a disk read error when trying to probe or read data from a particular disk. It seems that copy is not good. How you did it? More info on hard disks in your computer and where is installed system? Something as 'fdisk -l' and mark system partition should be fine. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 02 November 2008 12:00:18 Rajko M. wrote:
info grub section Troubleshooting subsect. Errors reported by the Stage 2 25 : Disk read error This error is returned if there is a disk read error when trying to probe or read data from a particular disk.
It seems that copy is not good. How you did it? More info on hard disks in your computer and where is installed system? Something as 'fdisk -l' and mark system partition should be fine.
Thanks for the help. I should have been more specific in the first place, but I was trying to keep my query short and readable. There are three drives and one DVD in my server, all four of them SATA. My motherboard has only 4 SATA ports, and the extra SATA card (2 port) I bought doesn't seem compatible with my BIOS. I can't get past a POST with it installed. If I had an extra SATA port, I'd just ADD the new drive to the system, instead of replacing the older drive with it. The drive I'm replacing holds only DVD movies. The other two drives contain my / and /home mounts. That's why I thought that replacing it would be safe and easy. Pete Connolly suggested in a private email that I try booting with the openSuSE DVD, and try sorting out the GRUB errors that way. I've needed to do that in the past, but I'd forgotten about that approach until he mentioned it. That's what I'm going to try next. I don't know what this particular drive has to do with GRUB, as it was added to the system long after the other two drives were in use. One would think that GRUB could care less if it is replaced, but apparently that's not true. Thanks again - I'm off to find my DVD, and try getting it started that way. If I can get the system booted, I'm pretty sure I can sort out the problems. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 11/03/2008 03:16 AM, Jerry Houston wrote:
On Sunday 02 November 2008 12:00:18 Rajko M. wrote:
info grub section Troubleshooting subsect. Errors reported by the Stage 2 25 : Disk read error This error is returned if there is a disk read error when trying to probe or read data from a particular disk.
It seems that copy is not good. How you did it? More info on hard disks in your computer and where is installed system? Something as 'fdisk -l' and mark system partition should be fine.
Thanks for the help. I should have been more specific in the first place, but I was trying to keep my query short and readable. There are three drives and one DVD in my server, all four of them SATA.
The drive I'm replacing holds only DVD movies. The other two drives contain my / and /home mounts. That's why I thought that replacing it would be safe and easy.
Understandable. Is this drive referenced by /boot/grub/device.map, or do the drives take on a different order via your BIOS with the new drive?
I don't know what this particular drive has to do with GRUB, as it was added to the system long after the other two drives were in use. One would think that GRUB could care less if it is replaced, but apparently that's not true.
Sounds like it is now referenced via device.map, which could mean a different boot order from your BIOS. Most will let you give an order these days. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 02 November 2008 15:07:54 Joe Morris wrote:
The drive I'm replacing holds only DVD movies. The other two drives contain my / and /home mounts. That's why I thought that replacing it would be safe and easy.
Understandable. Is this drive referenced by /boot/grub/device.map, or do the drives take on a different order via your BIOS with the new drive?
I'll have to get back to you on that - after I get it booted. :-)
I don't know what this particular drive has to do with GRUB, as it was added to the system long after the other two drives were in use. One would think that GRUB could care less if it is replaced, but apparently that's not true.
Sounds like it is now referenced via device.map, which could mean a different boot order from your BIOS. Most will let you give an order these days.
When I booted from the DVD, selecting "Boot from hard disk" didn't do any good. (It did at one time in the past, although an ordinary attempt to boot without the DVD would not.) So I told it to do an automatic system repair. After a very lengthy consideration, it told me that it couldn't find a boot partition. (And did I want to do a new installation?) So apparently that movies-only drive, which was the third one added to the system, somehow became my boot drive. I've re-installed the additional card with 2 SATA ports, thinking that maybe they really were compatible with my BIOS, but other problems kept things from working. And I've installed the new 1.5 TB drive using that accessory card. It actually shows up in the POST, so it may turn out to be okay. I'm back in the system recovery process, but this time with the original drive back where it originally was. I'm confident that the recovery will find a bootable drive this time, but it sure does take its time. And if it indeed does a fsck on that 1.5 TB drive, that's gonna take a long time. In the end, though, I *may* have a working system with the new drive added to it. That would indeed be sweet. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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