On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:58:08 -0700 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:09:27 -0700 >wes <[email protected]> dijo: >>my first guess is that the installer installed GRUB onto one drive, >>but the BIOS is attempting to boot the other drive. you could try >>swapping the cables going to them, or unplugging them one at a time >>til it boots (or doesn't). I agree that it should have worked once you >>repeated the installation to the other drive. Update: I have Xubuntu installed and working fine on one of the 320 GB drives. In the process I also tried installing it on the other drive. If both drives are plugged in during boot there is no way to get Xubuntu to boot; it gets hopelessly confused and I get the Grub menu. Unfortunately, the drives are identical except for serial number, and Grub just assigned uuid numbers to both, without bothering to tell me which uuid is assigned to which drive. In sum, the only way to boot is to leave one of the 320 GB drives not plugged in. After doing that, and using Rescue Mode to update Grub, it now boots fine from one drive, and I have fixed that installation the way I want it. I also discovered that I can hot-plug the other 320 GB drive. With Xubuntu running I can just reach into the case and plug the other 320 G drive in. Xubuntu automatically mounts it and presents a file browser window for it. I find this amazing. Of course you can hot-plug USB drives, but I am surprised that you can do it with internal drives as well. But note that the power cable was always connected; all I pulled during boot and plugged in after booting was the data cable. Having discovered this I used Palimpsest to remove the partitions from the hot-plugged 320 GB drive, and then formatted it as one partition ext4 for data storage. Now I should be able to leave it plugged in during boot and Xubuntu should not get confused. Having discovered that I could hot-plug the other 320 GB drive I tried it with the 1 TB drive. But the result was not what I hoped for. The disk light came on and stayed on continuously and Xubuntu did not mount the drive. I don't know what this means, and since the drive is not visible to Xubuntu, or even the BIOS, there is no way to do diagnostics on it. The only thing I can think of to try is to install it in another desktop computer with SATA ports to see if it is recognized. And when I pulled the 1 TB drive out of the case I discovered that the label says it is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 and that it is a "Certified Repaired HDD." That is because the original failed and Seagate replaced it under warranty. If this drive has failed also that makes the fourth Seagate drive that I have had fail within the last couple of years, and it also assures Seagate a top position on my "Do Not Buy" list. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
