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> If I give the root password, I can find no /dev/sda1. However, mount shows |
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> /dev/sda1 on /, and there *is* a /sys/block/sda folders, with a sda1 folder |
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> in that as well. It's almost like it had /dev/sda1, but then lost it |
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> somehow. |
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> Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? Any help would be |
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> appreciated. |
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This may be a problem with the order of disks. If there is a harddisk |
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and a USB, which one is recognized as sda1? I guess that can even |
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depend on the BIOS settings. |
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Then there are differences between different versions of Grub (but you |
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already manged the Grub setup). |
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I came to the following solution for me to make things more easy: |
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I put Grub always on the harddisk. I have a little linux partion only |
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for the purpose to configure Grub. So it's unambiguously that the |
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harddisk is the first disk and that Grub is on the first disk. |
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Now I can freely experiment on all other partitions and disks. I never |
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install a bootloader on those other partitions. |
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Sure that doesn't work for a rescue system when the harddisk is |
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broken. In that case I would use any live CD. |
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Al |
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