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alexfido@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Posted by "Alex Mclennan" <alexfido@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > hi to all,can some one help please,my machine is a 2.66 intel quad core with 160gb > hd and 4 gb ram. > my problem is that i have xp on the main sata hd and have just installed mepis 8 > on an ide hd which is in a caddy. > when i installed mepis i disconnected the sata drive just to make sure nothing > untoward happened to that,the mepis boots up great on its own but as soon as i > reconnect the sata drive and press f8 to bring up the boot menu,chose the ide > drive it goes to the opening mepis screen, i select that and the load screen > appears but will go no further. > if i select the sata it boots into xp no problem. > i only use xp to play 1 online game and watch a bit of 4od,im loathe to install > mepis with the sata attached as it caused major problems last time i tried,any > help much appreciated. > alex the noob 01395576780 (sidmouth) > Hmm, I wonder if it's because the SATA drive wasn't installed when Mepis was installed. Not used Mepis Linux but if it's anything like Ubuntu then it may label the IDE drives as /dev/sdX rather than /dev/hdX. If this is the case and Mepis is looking for it's installation on /dev/sda1 then it may be finding the Windows XP partition and then getting confused. I think you would have been better off in leaving the SATA drive installed when installing Mepis, that way you should have been able to select the IDE drive as the destination drive when you installed. The only changes in theory to the SATA drive would have been the installation of Grub. Anyway, to fix this, for starters I'd suggest booting into Mepis and then copy and paste the contents of your /etc/fstab into an e-mail and send it to the list. That way we can see if it mounts partitions on device id's or UUID numbers? Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html