[LUNI] KERNEL PANIC due to 2nd hard drive removal

[steipau at iit.edu]

Linux Community:

I have 2 hard drives hooked up on my RH7.2 machine. The first Hard Drive
is:
/dev/hda
   /dev/hda1    /(root)   ext3
   /dev/hda2    /boot     ext3

The second hard drive is not mounted, but is recognized by the BIOS as /dev/hdc
with 3 partitions:

/dev/hdc
   /dev/hdc1     ext2
   /dev/hdc2     Extended
      /dev/hdc5  swap

I need to remove the second hard drive and reboot, but this causes a kernel
panic. Does anyone know exactly what I could do to remove this without causeing
a kernel panic? Why is it panicking? Beacuse I can't find the boot sector
on drive 2 that was mapped to the boot partiition of the first drive by
Linux System when it first recognized the hard drive?

Please help.

Paul Steinke

Paul D. Steinke
Computer Programmer / Computer Networks
MSCS Illinois Institute of Technology (Student)
3+ years experience C / C++ programming.
7 years experience hardware design.
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