Looks like your HDD1 (Seagate 4TB) is failing, so can't mount /var, /home, etc. But, the actual mounting order goes like sda -- Adata 60GB sdb -- WD 10TB (the new disk) sdc -- Seagate 4TB 1. Try swapping the SATA connectors of 10TB and 4TB disks. 2. Replace 4TB as well. -- William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 09:49:58AM -0500, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:
Hi again,
Sorry for two system problems over the holidays, but this last one truly has me stumped.
Last week I had a problem trying to back up files onto a large drive using a USB enclosure.
This week I've tried to complete the install, and of course it could not go without problems....
The config is: SDD with /boot and / HDD1 with /var, /home and swap HDD2 has one data partition HDD3 has one data partition I am trying to replace HDD2 with HDD3.
HDD3 installs and mounts just fine. But if I unplug HDD2, the machine refuses to boot. Taking it to recovery mode eventually ends up in a hardware freeze. Plugging it back in goes to a normal boot, even though the HDD2's partition is no longer mounted to anything.
I've tried to eliminate the BIOS as a source of the problem, have updated it to the latest version and ensured that the disk-to-be-removed is not seen in any BIOS configurations.
I attach the one log file I am able to capture, since it freezes before mounting /var.
As best as I can tell the freeze happens during the point of the bootup where it's running fsck on the drives. It may be looking for the removed HDD2 but I don't know where it's remembering to look for it. HDD2 is no longer in /etc/fstab and I searched in vain for any instance of the UUID of HDD2 in either /boot or /etc.
Any suggestions?
-- Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch or @el56
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