[arch-general] New install second drive issue

[Pete Nikolic]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:18:59 +0200
> Khorne via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> 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 .
>