Boot is stopping when it can’t find a drive. It’s the hard drive (different from the boot drive) where I keep data. It stops when I is trying to activate LMV2 and times out when it can’t find that drive. The drive may be bad and I do have backups, but how do I get around this blockage and boot without it finding that drive? If I can get it to finish booting, I can replace the drive and restore.
Thanks,
Clyde
The last message in the boot, before freezing on Emergency mode is “Dependency failed on Local File System”.
I’m using 13.1.
Clyde
The drive may be bad
Do you already suspect this for a reason
Have you tested?
Do you need to use LVM?
I booted from “image for linux” (my backup software) and the tools in there didn’t see /dev/sdb either. I hear it starting up when I power on the computer, but 13.1 isn’t getting it going. It seems to be finding it because booting give the long dev ID.
I’m thinking I need to make a live USB drive with downloaded 13.1 and boot to see what I can find. I’m not an expert at what to find though.
Thanks,
Clyde
I’m thinking I need to make a live USB drive with downloaded 13.1 and boot to see what I can find.
Yes
Any Live distro will do
Use any live/rescue system to comment out all the entries in /etc/fstab that use that device.
IMHO then you would be able to boot the system (if the other device realy only has “data” and no parts of the system).
I downloaded (on my oS laptop) openSUSE 13.1 Rescue and made a CD. It booted just fine and I commented out the offending data drive in fstab. Sure enough, my old boot works just fine. Now to buy a new hard drive for data and restore the backup.
Thanks everyone,
Clyde