Hi Ralph . No this was a total clean install the uuids were what was automatically generated . I cant make heads or tails of it right now . Last time i had anything like this was way back in the days of MFM and RLL drives . Pete On Mon, 16 Sep 2019, 11:55 pete, <pg.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:18:59 +0200 > Khorne via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On September 16, 2019 10:45:18 AM GMT+02:00, pete via arch-general > > <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >Morning folks > > > > > >I have just done a complete new install on a new drive , That is all > > >working now fine . > > > > > >My problem comes when trying to include another drive on the system , > > >it just refuses to boot fully , I get a message unable to mount sda2 > > >now sda2 mounts , > > >/dev/sda2 on / type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota) > > > > > >when just the one drive is in the system but as soon as i connect it > > >refuses to to boot fully and drops out to an emergency shell that is > > >locked up solid i. > > > > > >I have set the working drive in the bios this is an older motherboard > > >with an AMD Phenome quad core CPU . > > > > > > $ lsblk > > >NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT > > >sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk > > >├─sda1 8:1 0 300M 0 part /boot > > >├─sda2 8:2 0 40G 0 part / > > >├─sda3 8:3 0 4G 0 part [SWAP] > > >└─sda4 8:4 0 1.8T 0 part /home > > >sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom > > > > > >the drive order in the bios is set correctly not that it makes much > > >difference these days . > > > > > >I am stuck right now i need to be able to include the old drive to > > >recover data from it . > > > > > >Any ideas folks .. > > > > > >Pete . > > > > Hi Pete, > > > > Can you add your fstab? > > I would hazard a guess and claim that if you use device names in > > fstab (sdXY) that your newly plugged in drive takes that name and > > isn't a valid rootfs. > > > > Preferably, you would use UUIDs in fstab. > > > > Regards, > > Khorne > > hi Fstab .. > > # /dev/sda2 > UUID=318fa89a-22b9-4bdd-92a1-1e9b3f070cb3 / xfs > rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota 0 1 > > # /dev/sda1 > UUID=78aca2f9-6dbd-4e21-9f4d-dae59b8c1a4f /boot ext2 > rw,relatime 0 2 > > # /dev/sda4 > UUID=b17ea3f0-c632-46b1-9c78-4f1aeb8773c7 /home xfs > rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota 0 2 > > # /dev/sda3 > UUID=a755fa7c-93ff-4ccb-bcd6-47560bd54cee none swap > defaults 0 0 > > > > Hope that helps . > > Thanks Pete . >
