[kwlug disc.] SATA setup problem

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Insurance Squared Inc. <
gcooke at insurancesquared.com> wrote:
>
> When I boot into linux I get a "mount: error 6 mounting ext3" error,
> followed shortly thereafter by a kernal panic.


Error 6 is "No such device or address".

You can try booting from a rescue CD or a USB distro (e.g. Damn Small
Linux), check where the drive is detected (e.g. /dev/sda2), mount the drive
on /mnt and then checking the /mnt/etc/fstab file to see if it uses UUIDs,
or something like /dev/sdb2. If it is the latter, then you can change that
to where the device is by checking dmesg for something like this:

[101172.792000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors
(160042 MB)
[101172.792000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[101172.792000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[101172.792000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled,
doesn't support DPO or FUA
[101172.960000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk

Which means it is sda and not sdb.
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