Problem on booting after re-allocating SATA connection
Hi all,
This is an old box (spare) which has not been run for sometimes. Because of the problem of a defective SATA connector on the motherboard I just re-allocated the HDs connection on SATA connectors Available SATA connectors on motherboard = 5, one defective Original setup: dual boot as follows, selected on motherboard BIOS Hard drives: 1) WD HD (1.5TB) - Ubuntu 14.04 running Oracle VirtualBox 2) SSD (120G) - Debian OS Seagate HD (640G) - for running VMs Booting 1) Ubuntu 14.04 following warning popup Code:
error: diskwriter writes are not supported Press "Ent" to continue Warning Code:
The disk drive for /medit/ssd is not ready yet or not present $ cat /etc/fstab Code:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information. Unable to boot 2) SSD - Debian OS WD HD - for running VMs Warning Code:
Reboot and Select proper Boot device Please help. Thanks Regards satimis |
Are you using grub-pc to boot with (grub2)?
Have you checked in your bios to make sure all sata ports are enabled? Bios determines what the designation of the drives are. You will need to find out what those designations are and edit your boot loader to account for this. |
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This box is quite old and I have intention to replace it. My daily working desktop is also a little bid old, about 3~4 years. I'm also prepared building a new desktop to replace it. Planning config of new desktop:- AMD 8-core CPU 32G RAM 1 TB SSD for installing OS as well as VMs Current Daily working desktop - config:- AMD 8-core CPU Motherboard ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. Product Name: M5A97 R2.0 Version: Rev 1.xx Serial Number: 120801426800789 32G RAM 120G SSD for installing OS - Ubuntu 12.04 2T WD black-label HD for running VMs I'll move the 32G RAM to the new desktop and move the 8G RAM from this problem desktop to the current daily working desktop making it as spare desktop. The price of 1TB SSD is still quite expensive. I'm waiting for its price to drop. Regards satimis |
That seems to cover it pretty well. Don't see, at all, how booting to any particular install could screw things up like that.
My impulse is to think it has something to do with LVM but I have no basis for that except prejudice against LVM on things other than servers. Running the boot info script and posting the results would be the best bet for either seeing the problem yourself or for some one here to see it. http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/ |
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