[Klug-general] H Drive mount

Thu Feb 2 06:53:44 UTC 2012

On 1 February 2012 20:53, David Halliday <david.halliday at gmail.com> wrote:

> Grub2 with all It's improvements is very powerful. I think everyone who
> has been using grub legacy finds learning grub2 frustrating especially as
> administering it feels far less casual than just tweaking a single text
> file.
>

Grub2 too feels like a advanced/revampted version of Lilo, not
any improvement on Grub-legacy at all. Its fine once you get used to it,
but its no where near as simple and slic as Grub-legacy is ie a single text
file you just change and it happens!.

Peter.

> On Feb 1, 2012 4:51 PM, "Rich" <klug-mail at richayres2.plus.com> wrote:
>
>> **
>> On 01/02/12 12:49, David Halliday wrote:
>>
>> If you want to run fsck on a drive that is mounted, you can unmount it
>> first (as long as it isn't the root partition).
>> If you want to run it on the root then you will have to use a live
>> distribution like Knoppix.
>>
>> If you have issues/worries about the drive then its worth setting it to
>> check at boot time in the fstab (it won't hurt to do this just slow down
>> booting on the occasions that the checks run).
>>
>> If you want to look at grub2 in a less heavy way, there is a GUI tool (I
>> have read good things about it but not used it):
>> https://launchpad.net/grub-customizer
>>
>> There is also some good documentation (prepare for a lot of reading) on
>> the ubuntu wiki: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
>>
>>
>>  On 31 January 2012 22:24, Rich <klug-mail at richayres2.plus.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  On 31/01/12 17:45, David Halliday wrote:
>>>
>>> Just some quick sanity checks (don't take them personally):
>>>
>>>    1. This message comes from when Linux is booting and not the BIOS
>>>    booting.
>>>    2. The BIOS set-up on the machine recognises the disk.
>>>    3. If possible S.M.A.R.T. checking is enables and hasn't fired any
>>>    errors for the disk (possible with old disks).
>>>    4. All physical connections have been given the usual extra
>>>    wiggle/push to tighten.
>>>
>>> A couple of pointers/questions:
>>>
>>>    1. What distribution are you using?  ----- Ubuntu 10.04 server
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    1. Have you configured the disks to be checked at boot time? (See
>>>    pass-num: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab ) ----------No
>>>     2. What is the file system being used? (EXT3/EXT4 etc...)
>>>    -------EXT4
>>>     3. At what point/which application/process/log gives that error
>>>    message?
>>>
>>>  The exact error message is " fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
>>>  This is followed by /dev/sad1 clean xxxxxx files xxx blocks
>>>   samefor sda3
>>>       These are the root and home partitions of first disc.
>>>  The next  line is "The disc drive for /mnt is not ready yet or not
>>> present
>>>  Continue to wait or Press to skip mounting or M for manual recovery?
>>>  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.
>>>    I have tried all your other suggestions for which much thanks
>>>
>>>
>>> On 31 January 2012 16:27, Rich <klug-mail at richayres2.plus.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All
>>>> 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.
>>>> When I boot up I get the Message " Drive may be slow to respond or not
>>>> present" and gives the option of mounting manually."
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   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.
>>>> 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?
>>>>   Rich
>>>>
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>>     Thanks David for all your help. I am familiar with using fsck on
>> discs, and feel sure that I can work out how to check before mounting. What
>> is very annoying is that I was just getting familiar and comfortable with
>> GRUB when GRUB2 comes along - Old Dogs and new tricks...........
>>      Thanks again Rich.
>>
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