* August C. Quint augustq@gmx.net [20070322 16:11]:
Maybe using Grub instead is worth a try.
I think we should first try to solve problem #2.
Yeah for sure, just answered your question. ;)
Sorry no idea yet. Can you please provide me a screenshot of the booting process where it hangs?
Sorry, I don't know how to make a screenshot in this stage of booting. And I don't have a digital camera (yet). So I try to write down the lines visible: the last lines before the problem happesn are related to raidx, so here it goes: Success: loaded module raid456 Success: loaded module raid5 Success: loaded module raid6 Modprobe: FATAL: Module raid10 not found Done. Begin: Assemblying all MD arrays ...
Now I get 6x the lines: usb 2-2: reset high speed USB device running ehci_hcd and address 2 followed by sd: 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00050000
And this will continue.
Ok, so if you press return then you don't see a busybox shell or something like that?
It looks like it accessed the disk successfully but it tries to access the single disk as a raid-disk in this stage (but I'm no expert here).
No, shouldn't be the case because if there aren't any MD arrarys present, mdadm will not touch anything.
What can I do? Which information do you need?
Please make sure that you are trying to boot the correct system. So boot your system but append root=/dev/sdb1 to the end of the 'grml' entry in lilo (yes, this works interactive - no reason to adjust /etc/lilo.conf) this time if your grml system resides on first partition of the device. What are you getting then? Any changes when using root=/dev/sda1?
Oh, and you might want to try to use root=UUID=... instead of root=/dev/sd[a-z]... so you can make sure your system uses the correct device for booting.
where do I have to put these modifications (I'm no expert here) ? I guess: I can use Knoppix to boot the machine and look for the file lio.conf (or so) on this external harddisk. Right?
Knoppix?!
http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2006/08/11/stable-root-device-aka-uuid/
regards, -mika-