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#1 2010-05-28 16:41:28

jlacroix
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Registered: 2009-08-16
Posts: 576

Latitude D630 Laptop With Modular Bay HDD Sometimes Doesn't Boot

I have a Latitude D630 laptop with two hard drives. The main drive is 640GB and it is 100% dedicated to Arch Linux. I have a secondary hard drive in the modular bay that has Windows 7 on it, that I use for college for their proprietary BS. The thing is, if I have that modular bay hard drive inserted, Arch won't boot most of the time. It says something about a superblock and not being able to find an ext partition, and to press ctrl+d to continue. I do that, and one out of five times it will boot. If I remove the modular bay hard drive, it works 100% of the time.

Here is the fstab:

# 
# /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      0
#/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda4 /home ext4 defaults 0 1

Note that I do not use my modular bay while running Arch and have no need to access it from within Arch. I keep it inserted so it's ready if I need to use it.

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