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kev717

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Registered: 2011-06-08

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Boot fails due to /dev/sdb not showing up after update

For some reason, my secondary hard disk has stopped being detected after I updated my Arch Linux machine today.  This machine has not been updated for about a year (I have been away).  Basically, /dev/sdb* is not in /dev/.  There is only /dev/sda*.

The current kernel installed is 2.6.39.

The error I get on boot is when it tries to detect the hard drives.  I would try to provide a log file, however every time I try to plug in a USB stick, it says that it is disabling IRQ #10, and it won't start the network so I can't ssh the information to any other computer.  I can log in by removing sdb from the fstab, so I will try to get /var/log/messages on here later.

I am using udev to detect my hard drives on startup.

Anybody know how to fix this problem?
I can log in perfectly fine if I remove any mention of sdb from my /etc/fstab.

Thank-you in advance for your help,
kev717.

Last edited by kev717 (2011-07-17 01:49:12)

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Boot fails due to /dev/sdb not showing up after update

Assuming you have a BIOS based computer, have you tried the BIOS configuration program to see if the drive is detected by the BIOS ?

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