I was recently given an old dell notebook that I thought would make an excellent FE. I had to do a manual install to HDC as that is what it recognized the hard drive to be. Not sure why but I got everything loaded and working.

After a few good restarts I now get an error message everytime I boot that stops the process until I hit cntrl D.

The message says


I am not sure why it is looking for hda. can anyone suggest a way to fix this?

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Have you ever cracked open this computer? Is there a physical drive connected to the primary IDE channel? Does the BIOS set up allow you to disable scanning of IDE0? It's usually on the 1st page of the BIOS menu. Probably set to "auto" and you may have to try using "disable" if my theory pans out...

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Never opened it. As i mentioned, this is a laptop notebook computer (Dell Inspiron 5150) so I don't think I can just change a jumper like in a desktop model (can I?).

Currently HDA is pointed to the CD drive and HDC is pointed to the hard drive.

The BIOS setup screen is also rather disappointing as it has little options other then boot order and setting the date/time.

All this aside, it seems to operate well from HDC. My only problem is this initial disk scan that is trying to check HDA. Is there a way to turn this off?

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Is there any reference to /dev/hda in your lilo.conf file? You may also want to look at the man pages for tune2fs.

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I am at work right now and will check as soon as I get home but I am almost certain there is as the CD/DVD drive is hda. The problem seems to be that it is trying to do a fsck on the CD/DVD drive. How can I make it stop doing that?

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Check your lilo.conf when you get home for references to /dev/hda. If it has a reference, such as

Change it to be and see if that cures your symptoms.
Failing that, you can add to your append line in lilo.conf
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO-7.html

You could disable the fs checking, but that's a more drastic fix (See the tune2fs man page). Let's see if we can get the system to recognize hda as a cdrom first.

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In my lilo.conf it already had a

I added the line that said but still get the same error.

The error specifically points to hda3. Is this something that is specifically setup by Knoppmyth? Or is this something that is being discovered wrong during boot up?

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Found it.

Some how in my /etc/fstab the /dev/hda3 was being setup as /myth. I commented this out and ta-da. I will go back and redirect /myth to /dev/hdc3 as all should be well.



mihanson, thanks for staying with me and all the help. Hope to repay you sometime.

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No problem. As soon as I read hda3 in your last message it clicked with me that it was looking for /myth. Glad you found it. No need to pay me back, just pay it forward!

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