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

[Mike Crawford]

> 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?
> 
It would also be very helpful if we had the exact verbage of the panic.
It usually tells you exactly what has gone wrong with the boot, and a
starting point for fixing it.

mike