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unilx

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From: Fredericton,Canada

Registered: 2009-10-01

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Linux wont boot with multiple harddrives installed (SOLVED)

I installed linux after disconnecting my two other harddrives everything went fine,but as soon as i plug them back in i get an error message:

/dev/sda3:
the superblock could not be read....
file system check failure

I'm pretty sure there's nothing wrong with the install since it works when the other drives are disconnected.
Is there anyway around this problem.
thx

Last edited by unilx (2010-10-18 05:27:28)

jac

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Registered: 2009-05-19

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Re: Linux wont boot with multiple harddrives installed (SOLVED)

I would check to see that the new drive you're plugging in is net being read first and being labled as sda. Maybe, try swapping the order of the drives. Or, try editing the grub listing (you can do this at the prompt) to boot from sdb.

ngoonee

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Re: Linux wont boot with multiple harddrives installed (SOLVED)

Search for how to use uuids in /etc/fstab, am pretty sure that's your issue.

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karol

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Re: Linux wont boot with multiple harddrives installed (SOLVED)

Search for how to use uuids in /etc/fstab, am pretty sure that's your issue.

+1
Are you using UUIDs or labels? Yhe sdX order is random http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Per … ice_naming

Last edited by karol (2010-10-17 23:20:50)

unilx

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From: Fredericton,Canada

Registered: 2009-10-01

Posts: 183

Re: Linux wont boot with multiple harddrives installed (SOLVED)

Thanks for the help and pointing me in the right direction.I was using /bin/ls -lf /dev/disk/by-uuid/ to find the uuids which wasen't very helpful,so.
I used    blkid      instead  to find the uuids and this link to find out how and where to set them up
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=91141