[Mageia-discuss] booting with two sata disks

Fri Dec 30 23:19:29 CET 2011

On Friday 30 December 2011 07:40:21 andre999 wrote:
+> Try exchanging the cables for the drives.  The bios might be identifying 
+> the new drive as the first drive, but only if it is present.
+> (It could be related to motherboard jumper settings, but exchanging the 
+> cables is an easier solution.)
+i did try new cables but to reiterate, booting happens, but immediately you 
+see the on screen phrase concerning init 2.8 and udev starting it hangs saying 
+"could not start boot splash:no such file or directory",
+i have a theory, because i was having some other problems at one time the 
+second hard drive was unattached at the time the kernel was upgraded, i'm 
+wondering if the mkinitrd that happens when  a new kernel is installed is to 
+blame because as i understand it the hang occurs when the ram image? hands 
+over to the root partition?, i shall uninstall the kernel update and reinstall 
+it with the second drive attached to see what happens
+
+bascule
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