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Dethredic

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sda error on boot but no sda drive

So, when I boot up my computer I get this error:

sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] 16777215 512-byte hardware sectors: (8.58 GB/7.99 GiB)
sda: unknown partition table
sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled error code
sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x04 driverbyte=0x00
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 224
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 224
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 225
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 226

[phil@Arch ~]$ cat /etc/fstab
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

#/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      2
#/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0
#UUID=278BAC2B0D1BFE2F /mnt/vista ntfs-3g users,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002 0 0
UUID=1c9db261-e019-4150-a50b-5bc7e396ee11 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=3673f14d-7c32-41d7-bd2e-acadb7b6cb76 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
UUID=3a31593b-d2e7-4548-a07d-02cc37a1b084 / ext4 defaults 0 1
UUID=5d202ff1-9530-4a2b-a621-0d3f3e9a2462 /boot ext4 defaults 0 2

The thing is that I removed this hard drive a month ago, and it does not show up in my BIOS. Not in my menu.lst either.

Last edited by Dethredic (2009-06-17 17:41:13)

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lifeafter2am

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Re: sda error on boot but no sda drive

Obvious things there, but it isn't still being referenced in either your /etc/fstab or somewhere in your grub.lst / grub.conf.

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Dethredic

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Re: sda error on boot but no sda drive

nope. I also edited first post.

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Dethredic

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Re: sda error on boot but no sda drive

anyone?

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theapodan

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Registered: 2008-10-21

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Re: sda error on boot but no sda drive

This is a kernel message from before mount, so fstab doesn't matter, I think.

Maybe what you are experiencing is similar to what I was experiencing, namely that the addition (or deletion) of a drive causes the kernel to change the drives to which it assigns identifiers.  So when you removed your old sda, your sdb drive became known to the kernel as sda.

So maybe the sda drive it is talking about IS a drive in your system, and that drive might be failing?

Last edited by theapodan (2009-06-19 13:27:27)

Dethredic

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Re: sda error on boot but no sda drive

This is a kernel message from before mount, so fstab doesn't matter, I think.

Maybe what you are experiencing is similar to what I was experiencing, namely that the addition (or deletion) of a drive causes the kernel to change the drives to which it assigns identifiers.  So when you removed your old sda, your sdb drive became known to the kernel as sda.

So maybe the sda drive it is talking about IS a drive in your system, and that drive might be failing?

Well, it has been saying that for like the past 4 months, and other than this I haven't had any problems.

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