[kwlug disc.] SATA setup problem

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I've also seen where things get confused between /dev/hdc and 
/dev/sda, typically when moving disks and the kernel perceives the 
adapter access has changed.

If you can boot the LiveCD suggested, and go to /boot/grub, you should 
see things hang together (or not) in terms of hdc or sda. There will 
be a file in there that maps (0,0) (?) to hdc or sda, probably hdc. 
Make sure this makes sense, and that menu.lst uses the correct format.

I've also seen this within menu.lst when UUID is used for the drives.

You may have success making the hd / sd consistent, and or not using 
the UUID form. The UUID form can be re-instated once you get the 
beastie up and going. If you choose.

Windows not booting is strange. All other hard drives are out at the 
time of boot, right? [Add back later.]

There are Windows and Grub boot diskettes you can make if you think 
that might be useful. In the LiveCD / Grub case, it lets you muck 
about in /boot/grub without having to boot the LiveCD every time what 
you try doesn't work.

Khalid Baheyeldin wrote, On 04/05/2008 6:15 PM:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Insurance Squared Inc. 
> <gcooke at insurancesquared.com <mailto: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.