Re: Linux server brought down by Elite on 31337 port and also how to install 2 hard disks on the same linux machine

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Date: 05/27/04 

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 14:48:02 GMT

In comp.security.misc Ann <nsajus@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I removed this hard disk and tried to make this a secondary hard drive
> on another redhat linux machine(whose hard disk will serve as the
> primary hard disk.) in the hope that i can mount the second hard disk
> and browse the contents and make backups..After i install the
> corrupted hard disk along with the good redhat linux hard disk, and
> restart it, it shows the primary hard disk(the good redhat disk) info
> and then it just hangs. I read some where that the second hard disk
> should be automatically be detected by the redhat machine, but it
> doesn't get there..Does it matter if the hard disks on both the
> machine are named hda? Is there a way to rename one of them to hdb? I
> know all these must be stupid questions..I am kind of new at this..

As many people have pointed out, this could be a lot of things from
bad jumper settings to duplicate volume labels (easy way to tell: if
the BIOS boot screen shows both drives, but Linux hangs when trying to
mount local filesystems, then it's a label problem).

I'm responding though with a different piece of advice: Doing this
little "hard disk dance" is unnecessary, and leads to a lot of
problems (like the one you're having!). I always keep a few bootable
full system CDs on-hand to rescue a system in such a situation. There
are a few designed specifically for security and forensics, but I have
lately been using just the standard Knoppix and Mandrake Move CDs. I
guarantee these will make your life much, much, MUCH easier in
situations like these.

For your current situation, you've already moved the disks around, but
you could certainly still get these live CDs and use them to boot to
a state where you can edit the /etc/fstab on your new install to use
actual partition names (like /dev/hda3 or whatever) instead of labels. 

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