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#1 2024-03-29 00:09:20
- Iiridayn
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- Registered: 2018-01-18
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Warning: vfat unrecognized and one harddrive disappeared w/Linux 6.8.1
I updated and rebooted, and one of my harddrives disappeared. I tried to fix it by upgrading to the latest kernel which came out overnight. 6.8.2 was not able to mount /boot, which was a vfat file system, not recognizing it (or the other drive). I downgraded to 6.8.1 but my disk was again not recognized. When I downgraded to 6.7.9 my computer was able to boot fine without issues.
I don't remember exactly, but I suspect my missing drive is plugged into a PCI-express SATA port supplier, and the latest version of the kernel wasn't compiled with the ability to talk to that kind of device. I'm not sure how to fix this.
Lacking support for vfat is even more concerning.
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#2 2024-03-29 08:17:50
- seth
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Re: Warning: vfat unrecognized and one harddrive disappeared w/Linux 6.8.1
You're likely installing the kernel to the wrong location and "uname -a" will reveal that you're booting 6.7.9 regardless of what version is installed?
Check "lsblk -f", "cat /proc/cmdline" (<- a reference to boot/vmlinuz* there means you're actually booting from the root partition) and your fstab
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