Hi, i'm having this problem in my job...

What causes it:

In our server we had 1 HD, but it was with problems then we bought a new one... we installed it and we left the old one as slave.

Today we had to remove the old one to test another CPU, ok and now the server doesn't work without the slave HD, after a bunch of errors while starting SuSE 9.3 the last one is the title of this post.

Would like someone to help me, please.

Most likely it is an issue with your fstab, when you get the grub boot loader screen type init 1 in the options line thiss will bott the system into a low level mode without mounting any drives except the root drive, then use vi to edit the /etc/fstab file commenting out the line that tells the system to mount the missing drive.

#vi /etc/fstab

*find the line that tells the system to mount the missing drive

<example>
/dev/sda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0

type "i" to go into edit mode

add a "#" to the begining of the line

#/dev/sda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0

hit the esc key

the type :wq

type "init 5" at the command line to start the system up the rest of the way

We did it, but same problem...

Any guesses?