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devil_kc

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Registered: 2008-09-14

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arch wont boot if i remove old disk

hi guys
i have 3 hdd in my desktop pc. one old PATA and 2 new SATA. old pata disk is dying for a while now and when i try to remove it arch wont boot. says i have to repair disks.
in fstab drives are set by uuid, in grub also.
i really don't know where else to look or what to do.
can somebody help me?
kernel is 2.6.29 if that is important

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Re: arch wont boot if i remove old disk

I never saw an error message 'repair disks'. I'm afraid you'll have to be a tad more specific.

Grub isn't installed on the HD you want to take out by any chance?

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devil_kc

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Re: arch wont boot if i remove old disk

grub and OS is isntalled on SATA drive. system boots all the way to mounting local filesystems and then stops. it says to repair disk or do ctrl-d to continue. as i have oooold computer and shiny new usb wireless keyboard, i cannot do anything:(

Last edited by devil_kc (2009-07-28 14:11:07)

devil_kc

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Re: arch wont boot if i remove old disk

maybe it is becouse linux is used to mount that old disk as /dev/sda ? and the broblem is that OS is on drive linux used to see as /dev/sdb?
but isn't that why uuid is used? to avoid that problems?

whoops

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Re: arch wont boot if i remove old disk

Uhm... I think I remember one occasion where I had something like "repair disk, ctrl-something"... and in a strange way like that, too... you sure you didn't forget about a software raid you created ages ago (maybe as swap or to speed up booting)?

devil_kc

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Re: arch wont boot if i remove old disk

nope, no raid, nothing, that disk is formatted amonth ago. first i lsot all the data on it. and now this disk sends wrong data about himself (for bios he is sometimes known as Mrxtr  and few random numbers ) and then, also, arch wont boot. that is really pissing me off.

i think that you can see in /etc/rc.sysinit that message. i am on linux mint system now and i cannot find this here

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Re: arch wont boot if i remove old disk

Boot into your setup from the installation CD with the disk you want out already taken out and fix it. As for your USB keyboard: that's pretty much a problem you're creating yourself. I can use my USB wireless keyboard to get into the BIOS etc., and my desktop is an AMD K7 (Athlon XP 2500+), that's not something you call recent.

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brisbin33

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Re: arch wont boot if i remove old disk

quick sanity check, did you delete the line in fstab regarding this disk? if fstab as an [auto] line for a drive that's not present the system will fail to boot, stopping at just the point you mention.

/edit: typo

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devil_kc

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Re: arch wont boot if i remove old disk

heh i removed fstab entry loong time ago:) back when hdd started to go crazy.
i double checked yesterday. reinstalling and repairing installation is not really an option. i don't have the time damn work

scio

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Re: arch wont boot if i remove old disk

When you have the drive in, do a blkid and check mount to see if it's there.  If it is then do a find <path> | xargs grep '<UUID>' to see if the UUID is hiding somewhere you forgot about.  I would check /boot and /etc first.

This was the sanity check I did when I had an incorrect UUID in my grub menu.lst (trying to use /home as your /boot doesn't work

lycurgus

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Registered: 2009-05-31

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Re: arch wont boot if i remove old disk

can you find an old wired keyboard to use? or play with your BIOS settings (looking for 'USB Legacy Keyboard', or similar)?

either way, try running that drive repair. i've encountered it in the past and just letting it run seemed to make the system happy.

Chokkan

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Registered: 2009-04-06

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Re: arch wont boot if i remove old disk

I'm guessing this problem has to do with the 6th column in fstab about checking the filesystem. Something going wrong there?

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