Removed IDE H.D. Now Suse wont boot.

[pavNell]

I removed an ide hard drive(not bootable) on my Suse 9.1 box. Upon rebooting I get an fsck error, says like "root filesystem is read-only" and gives me a prompt to login as root. I then log in, shutdown, put the hard drive back in and it boots up just fine. So I edited /etc/fstab and commented out all lines refering to the drive. Shut down, removed drive, powered up and still get the same fsck error.
I'm a real hardware dolt. Can someone help me out here?

 

[stefanwagner]

Perhaps an entry in lilo.conf?
(copied everything to /dev/hdc but forgot to rerun lilo?)

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[pavNell]

well, I use grub, but thats definately a good place to look. thanks.

 

[plamb]

what is the removed drives ID ??? If it is hda and your other is hdb when you remove hda hdb becomes hda

 

[marsd]

What filesystem?
This doesn't sound really reasonable btw.
I can remove a drive from my SuSE boxes and
comment out loading instructions from fstab and
everything is copacetic unless some vital FS
is located on the removed drive and I haven't
properly recreated it and a mount point on the
existing drive.

 

[thedaver]

just paste your "fstab" file here...

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[pavNell]

well, it's working fine now. thanks for the posts.

Reiser FS on /media/hde1 using an IDE expansion card.
I was using one of those cheap removable H.D. "bays" that you can swap (not hot) IDE hard drives out with. I'd shut down, pull out the drive and reboot. That's when I'd have the 'read-only FS' problem. So then I slid the drive back into the "bay", startup and no problem. But I didn't want that H.D. in there anymore!!

So what I did was open the box up, removed the IDE cable from the IDE expansion card that fed that removable hard drive "bay", boot up and it all started up just fine.

It's still a mystery as to specifically why an empty removable hard drive bay would affect hda1, but I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it. One things for sure...
those cheap removable hard drive bays just belong in the trash, period.