From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lilo 'duplicate volume id' issue after attaching esata enclosure
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:25:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEH5T2Ni7HYgNeqHeis9F8C7Q9k1njCQKCjwO+LV6aYViqE0oA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALxYTP5JvQJnikwiSaH8=Xx8d-upVs1utng1XrnYT79X4g2u8g@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Doug Hunley <doug.hunley@gmail.com> wrote:
> The subject line pretty much says it all. I've been happily using lilo
> to boot from my internal 4-disk sata array (md, raid 1) for a while
> now and I recently bought an external sata enclosure. I cabled it up
> to my machine, added 4 disks I had sitting around, and on boot, lilo
> throws a 'duplicate vol-id detected' error and halts...
> I did a bunch of googling, and it looks like if I could just get
> booted, running 'lilo' would actually fix the problem, but I can't get
> lilo booted past this error.
The LILO source code contains a diagnostics diskette that you can
build, maybe it can be of some assistance. It has been over a decade
since the last time I saw LILO so I'm unfortunately no help beyond
this bit of trivia.
> Ideas on how I can fix/remove the vol-id from the external disks?
Do you have another machine with SATA ports that you can hook them up
to temporarily and alter those troublesome bytes?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-23 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-23 12:30 [gentoo-user] lilo 'duplicate volume id' issue after attaching esata enclosure Doug Hunley
2012-04-23 12:47 ` Michael Mol
2012-04-23 17:30 ` Doug Hunley
2012-04-24 16:23 ` Michael Mol
2012-04-23 23:25 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2012-04-24 16:11 ` Doug Hunley
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