Re: Troubles Adding SATA Drive

Don Raboud wrote:



I've run across this as well. The labeling of the SATA drives changes when
a new one is added. So what used to be sda (for example) becomes sdb and
the bootloader is looking for you kernel on sda.

What I did was simply change the connectors that each SATA drive was
attached to (with all three drives connected) so that the drives that were
previously labeled sda and sdb showed up as those again. Then the new
drive will be sdc (probably) and I think you will have what you intended.

I admit this is not an elegant solution, but it only has to be done once
(until you add or remove another drive) and really doesn't take that much
time.

Another option I think should work (and is much more flexible) would be to
boot from a rescue CD or a live CD and see how the drives are labeled. Then in GRUB (I assume you are using GRUB) you can change which hard drive
(in GRUB notation) gets mapped to which drive (in linux notation). I don't
recall the details of how to do this, but as I recall the administration
manual covers this in reasonable detail.

Hope this helps.





Thanks Don - I'll give the first suggestion a try as it involved the least amount of messing around with the software AND is reversible.

- John

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