[arch-general] New install second drive issue

[Khorne]

On September 16, 2019 10:45:18 AM GMT+02:00, pete via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org> 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