Allegedly, on or about 01 October 2014, CLOSE Dave sent: > When I have two disks (I've haven't had more thus far), the logic > works perfectly. Except... When the machine reboots, it tries to boot > from the second disk, sdb, not from sda where the boot loader is. Of > course, that doesn't work and the machine hangs. > > My cure for this at this time is manual. I use the BIOS to disable the > second disk, boot (which starts but fails), then use the BIOS to > re-enable the second disk and everything works as it should. But why > does the box think it should boot from the second disk? I had a similar problem when I installed, a while back. When I booted from a DVD, the installing system regarded the DVD as sda and the HDD as sdb. Under a normal boot, it's the other way around. The installed system wouldn't boot. However, playing with the boot menus, I found the "recovery" (or other similarly named) option, would boot - it had entries to boot the drive using the UUID of the drive partition, and didn't care where it was mounted. The normal boot was trying to use /dev/sdb instead of the UUID. So, I edited the grub settings for normal booting to use the UUID, and things worked. I could have, alternatively, changed sdb to sda. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. ZNQR LBH YBBX -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
