[NTLUG:Discuss] Lost drive

[Michael Barnes]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Ralph Green <sfreader at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 14:37 -0500, Michael Barnes wrote:
>>   When it boots up, the POST splashes
>> the card and the drive.  fdisk -l /dev/sdb returns nothing.
>>
>> Any ideas on other things to check?  At first, it wouldn't even boot
>> until I commented out the drive mounting in fstsab.
>
> Howdy,
>  Maybe the drive letter changed for some reason.  Try:
>  dmesg | grep sd
>
>  Look at the fairly short output and see if you recognize the drive on
> some other id.  I suppose there is a small chance it could be hd instead
> of sd, but I doubt it.
> Ralph
>

I commented out all references to the drive in fstab and the computer
booted up just fine.  fdisk -l /dev/sdb showed properly.  I
uncommented the necessary lines in fstab and mounted the drive, then
mounted the various binds and its now working fine.  I think the
problem was the order of things in fstab.  Anyhow, its working and I
don't want to touch it any further unless it croaks again.

Thanks for all the comments,
Michael