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SATA 6 Gb/s WD HDD not booting on Squeeze

June 26th, 2012 - 07:40 pm ET by Mark Panen | Report spam
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Hi,

I have four HDD, the forth one is a WD 2TB SATA 6B/s and i connected it
to the SATA 6 port on the mobo with a SATA 6 cable.

I disconnected the other three SATA HDD when installing. The
installation went fine and i did a lot of work to set up my drive.

I then connected the other three SATA drives one by one and fdisk showed
them up and i mounted them.

I then put the fstab entries into fstab as per the Debian wiki or
google, don't remember.

When i reboot grub appears and then i get a message "Please wait
loading" and then a whole lot of other sh!t.

Knoppix does not pick up the 2TB drive so i can't edit the fstab to get
rid of the entries i put in.

Rescue is very helpful, not.

Could someone please tell me how the f*** to edit fstab?

Cheers
Mark


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#1 Nick Boyce
June 26th, 2012 - 08:50 pm ET | Report spam
On Wednesday 27 Jun 2012 00:30:20 Mark Panen wrote:

When i reboot grub appears and then i get a message "Please wait
loading" and then a whole lot of other sh!t.



I think you'd better tell us what some of that doodookaka actually says :)

Knoppix does not pick up the 2TB drive so i can't edit the fstab to get
rid of the entries i put in.



What version of Knoppix ?
ISTR there's a disk size limit of around 2Tb+ after which you need a UEFI BIOS
to handle the drive - or at least a BIOS that can handle GPT partition format
disks.

What's the motherboard in this machine ?

Could someone please tell me how the f*** to edit fstab?



I think my first move would be to physically disconnect the 3 smaller drives,
and try booting then - just the data cables, you can leave the power cables
connected if that helps. Bet you've tried that by now :)

Cheers
Nick
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#2 Mark Panen
June 26th, 2012 - 09:20 pm ET | Report spam
On 27/06/2012 02:46, Nick Boyce wrote:
On Wednesday 27 Jun 2012 00:30:20 Mark Panen wrote:


When i reboot grub appears and then i get a message "Please wait
loading" and then a whole lot of other sh!t.



I think you'd better tell us what some of that doodookaka actually says :)


Knoppix does not pick up the 2TB drive so i can't edit the fstab to get
rid of the entries i put in.



What version of Knoppix ?
ISTR there's a disk size limit of around 2Tb+ after which you need a UEFI BIOS
to handle the drive - or at least a BIOS that can handle GPT partition format
disks.

What's the motherboard in this machine ?


Could someone please tell me how the f*** to edit fstab?



I think my first move would be to physically disconnect the 3 smaller drives,
and try booting then - just the data cables, you can leave the power cables
connected if that helps. Bet you've tried that by now :)

Cheers
Nick




My bad sorry, i had to enable the AHCI in Marvell in the BIOS.

Cheers
Mark


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