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On 31/01/12 17:45, David Halliday wrote:
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type="cite">Just some quick sanity checks (don't take them
personally):<br>
<ol>
<li>This message comes from when Linux is booting and not the
BIOS booting.</li>
<li>The BIOS set-up on the machine recognises the disk.</li>
<li>If possible S.M.A.R.T. checking is enables and hasn't fired
any errors for the disk (possible with old disks).</li>
<li>All physical connections have been given the usual extra
wiggle/push to tighten.<br>
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<p>A couple of pointers/questions:<br>
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<ol>
<li>What distribution are you using? ----- Ubuntu 10.04 server<br>
</li>
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<li>Have you configured the disks to be checked at boot time?
(See pass-num: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab</a>
) ----------No<br>
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<li>What is the file system being used? (EXT3/EXT4 etc...)
-------EXT4<br>
</li>
<li>At what point/which application/process/log gives that error
message?<br>
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The exact error message is " fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2<br>
This is followed by /dev/sad1 clean xxxxxx files xxx blocks <br>
samefor sda3<br>
These are the root and home partitions of first disc.<br>
The next line is "The disc drive for /mnt is not ready yet or not
present<br>
Continue to wait or Press to skip mounting or M for manual
recovery?<br>
Is this something connected with grub2 ? How can I initiate the
fsck for sdb1 which seems to need to be done before mounting or am I
completely on the wrong track. I am not sure where I should put this
(Don't Say it - I know what you are thinking), presumably somewhere
in the sdb1 entry. <br>
I have tried all your other suggestions for which much thanks <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 31 January 2012 16:27, Rich <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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padding-left: 1ex;">Hi All<br>
I have been having trouble in mounting a newly installed Hard
drive. I have edited /etc/fstab and the disc's (I know CLI etc
require the Yankee spelling -disk-but outside of that I spell
in English) UUID, mount point etc.<br>
When I boot up I get the Message " Drive may be slow to
respond or not present" and gives the option of mounting
manually."<br>
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mount /mnt /dev/hdb1 is successful and I can access the
contents of the drive with ls /mnt so disc does exist and will
mount O.K.<br>
Is there anything else I should be doing? As you know my
machines are old but I have never had this problem before even
with this disc on another box. Any suggestions please?<br>
Rich<br>
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