OpenSUSE Install :: Unable To Login After Replacing Hard Drive?

Jul 14, 2011

I am running OpenSuse 11.4 with Gnome3, with 2 hard drives. One is for the system and has three partitions - root, swap, and home. The second is only data storage. Last week I started getting popups stating I had a hard drive going bad. I checked SMART status in disk utility and had several bad sectors on the system drive, so I cloned the drive to a new one with Clonezilla. Here is where everything went kooky. When I booted the new disk I had a ton of errors at boot along the lines of unable to find a drive. Upon closer inspection I realized the the system located the drives by device id instead of the traditional /dev/sdx. So I started playing with grub settings but never could get it to stop looking for the old hdd. Next, I popped in my net install disc and found I could do an upgrade install which proceeded normally. When I rebooted, no more boot errors, but I get to the black screen with spinning cursor and it will not proceed any further, I even let it run overnight and when I woke up, spinning cursor. As for troubleshooting, I was able to CTRL+ALT+F2 to a console and log in as root successfully but not as a user. When I try to log in as a user, I enter my username, then password, the "have a lot of fun" flashes by quickly and I am returned to a login prompt. I logged in to the console as root and created a new user and tried logging in again, but same thing. I am able to do an ls -l on /home/mike and all my files are there and the listed permissions look ok. I am at a loss as to what to try next. My old hdd will still boot, I just pulled it to reduce risk af data loss. I have never used auto yast before but I always see the prompt for it during an install. Can I clone the system with auto yast on to a different hard drive. Does it strip the by-device-id from the image? Which logs should I check?

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Fedora :: Replacing / Upgrading Hard Drive

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I have a Fedora 12 system running just fine (AMD box w/2 Maxtor 200 GB (PATA) hard drives. I have a spare 320 GB drive (fallout from a Windows box HD upgrade) and would like to replace 1 of the 200 GB drives in the Fedora system. Is there an easy, straightforward way to do this w/out messing up the system?

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For starters, I apologize if this turns out to be a double post. My windows laptop hiccupped in the middle...

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The the boot drive croaked. I replaced it and reinstalled CENTOS (making sure, of course, to be careful to use the new drive). The I put the second drive back into the volume group (and that's it).

I'm assuming I probably need to create a new logical volume, because that's how it was before, but I really really don't want to format it.

Am I missing a step or am I screwed?

Fsck -l showed the following output both before and after I put the drive in the volume group. code...

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Mar 21, 2011

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So now i am in Fedora (via a (live fedora installed) usb).

I have created a 5GB (unallocated) partition on my 500GB hard disk.

Currently there are 4 partitions on my hard disk -

(assume original size)
C: of size 53GB.
D: of size 210GB
E: of size 210GB
G: of size 10GB to boot ubuntu(not installed).

AND a 5GB unallocated as i have stated above.

I am new to the installation of fedora to hard drive.So while clicking Install to hard drive i am stuck on the type of installation menu screen.

I dont know which one to select.i did checkout each one but after clicking for example replace existing linux system(s) what i get to see is only 2 hard drives/files on the left table.

1> my hard drive - detected as complete 500GB of space.
2> my 4GB Kingston pen drive on which my fedora live image is installed.

Then after reading the forums, i came across people asking for the output of the command sudo fdisk -l.(l means small L)

So i typed it in the terminal and this is what i got - Code: [liveuser@localhost ~]$ sudo fdisk -l

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.

liveuser is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

I want to install Fedora 14 on my 5GB unallocated partition.

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Jan 2, 2010

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with only a 41 MB partition avaialble for Linux).

Allocations are:

After install finsishes the boot process fails with:

Restored the MBR from a Windows CD, and thinking the boot loader needed to be in the MBR area of sdb, installed again with "Install Boot Loader" specified as sdb. Same results.

Restored the MBR and installed again with "Install Boot Loader" specified as hd0. Same results.

Restored the MBR and installed again with /boot allocated on sda2 (the 41 MB partition on the first hard drive). "Install Boot Loader" specified as hd0.

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Feb 22, 2010

I'm trying to get an external HD to mount on my Dell Laptop running OpenSuse 11.1. When I connect I get the following:

Quote:

dmesg:

usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=0503
usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=54, Product=69, SerialNumber=95

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But am left scratching my head. I don't think its showing up in the etc/mtab - which i think it is supposed to?

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After this the problem got worse now i am not able to see any of the drives in the side panel. Gone through many forum and posts all discuss about external USB HDD.

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Jan 22, 2010

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I added this to the system and mounted a partition. I then copied the data over. Then I umounted the partition rebooted the machine and removed the hard drive.

However the machine will now not boot without this hard drive even though its not mounted. Not sure what the error message im given means I think it could be trying to fchk it.

Do I need to do something more like remove /dev/sdd ?

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Mar 14, 2011

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The trouble is that it boots and then it tries to find /dev/sda2 (the root partition). As it doesn't find it asks me sether he should take "SAMSUNG...whathever...-part2". Answering Yes solves the problem. But then, if I change in Grub the /dev/sde2, it still keeps changing of name. How could I have my hard drive back to /dev/sda2 ?

My /etc/fstab:

Code:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_SP2004C_S07GJ1UYB03169-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_SP2004C_S07GJ1UYB03169-part2 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

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Feb 26, 2010

I came in this morning only to find that the Intel Core2 hyperthreading Dell machine is dead. It appears the processor is fried.

I have a new white-box X2 system that I will replace the dead Dell with. The X2 (AMD) does not have a hard-drive (HDD) so, I will simply put the SATA hard-drive into the PC.

Some of you may know how to do this, but I don't know where to begin after I get the Hard-drive in. (I know how to move a Windows configuration from one PC to another and handle it as it begins to blue screen (BSOD), but I don't have a clue with Linux)

This system was built with GRUB. At the very least, I expect the GRUB boot managet to surface on the display. But, what next....

I was testing an OpenSuse setup as a server. Nothing fancy and NO applications added. The only customization was the MB's LAN card and the display was set at 1024x768. I had 2 users, root and myself. What would you do? Is there some boot time options that I should follow?

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Jun 12, 2011

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Machine: Compaq presario C767TU
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There are 2 users on the computer and there is nothing special or big installed.

I have currently 2 more harddrives which host music/picture & movie data's.

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My current setup:
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