[kwlug disc.] SATA setup problem

[R. Brent Clements]

And I have to ask, because this caused me no end of grief a few weeks
ago--it isn't an ASUS P5VD2-VM SE motherboard, is it?

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 7:54 PM, unsolicited <unsolicited at swiz.ca> wrote:
> 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.
> >
>
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