More UUID madness

[Mark Haney]

I didn't actually edit the log.  I had to enter it manually. I only get emergency mode on that netbook which doesn’t let me copy over the sosreport.txt file to any device.  

As far as the drive goes, I know it's fine.  The problem isn't the drive, it's got to be the drivers or something stupid with grub.  It will NOT mount by UUID.  Period.  I get this:

Warning: /dev/disk/by-uuid/34307864-a1db-46e5-9815-d4c7c0698de35 does not exist

I get this with EACH of the linux partitions it's trying to mount.  Let me make this clear. I had this issue back with F16/17 and could boot by specifying the device the old way, /dev/sda5 etc.  I can mount the drive partitions from a LIVECD of any linux distro.  What I want to know is what do I need to do to make GRUB2 work?  So far, I'm not at all impressed with GRUB2.  It's beyond ridiculous to have to edit a half-dozen files to change how a system boots.  I am considering trying to get it to boot by Label, but the directions to do so are just asinine.  


-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Tim
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 11:13 PM
To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: More UUID madness

Allegedly, on or about 19 September 2013, Mark Haney sent:
> Does this trigger a thought with anyone on what the problem could be?

"failed... queued... timed out..." sounds like hardware trouble...  But it would have been better if you'd not edited the log.

>  I know the drive is good since I can boot to Windows. 

That's no guarantee.  Windows will quite happily use broken hard drives, and the royally screw up when it hits a faulty part of the drive, then
(often) not give any real clue as to why.

Years ago, it was only with Linux that I found out I had a faulty drive, and why a Windows PC was inexplicably crashing.  Swapping that drive, nothing else, and running with the same drive contents, and it became more reliable than I generally expected from Windows.

Even new hard drives die, so newness is no guarantee.  They can get zapped by static during handling.  And bumping 5 inch drives while they're running, by moving the PC around, easily damages them.  The smaller laptop drives seem better at protecting themselves when they're moved about.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64

All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists.

George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.



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