[Mageia-discuss] booting with two sata disks

[bascule]

On Friday 30 December 2011 22:19:29 bascule wrote:
>  i shall uninstall the kernel update and reinstall 
> it with the second drive attached to see what happens
well no change, i have to remove the splash option from the grub entry to 
progress, i did notice this while reinstalling the kernel (sorry about the 
formatting, dumping the vcs gave me a single long string, i don't know how to 
get it to look as it does on the screen):

[root at watson bascule]# urpmi kernel-desktop-latest                              
                   To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going 
to
be installed:                             Package                        
Version
     Release       Arch                                   (medium "Core 
Updates
(Mageia1_3)")                                                                  
kernel-desktop-2.6.38.8-8.mga  1            1.mga1        i586                  
                   kernel-desktop-latest          2.6.38.8     8.mga1       
i586                                    42MB of additional disk space will be
used.                                                         38MB of packages
will be retrieved.                                                              
  Proceed with the installation of the 2 packages? (Y/n) y                      
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                           installing
kernel-desktop-latest-2.6.38.8-8.mga1.i586.rpm
kernel-desktop-2.6.38.8-8.mga-1-1.mga1.i586.rpm from
/data/mageia/mageia1/i586/media/core/updates                                    
        Preparing...                    
#################################################################        
1/2:
kernel-desktop-2.6.38.8-8.mga                                                   
                                        
#################################################################  
1 /dev/sdb1
ext3 normal (2048,3697313791,3697311744)2 /dev/sdb2  normal
(3697313792,3907029134,209715343)$VAR1 = {                                      
                                                         'part_number' => '1',  
                                                                           
'fs_type' => 'ext3',                                                            
                   'pt_type' => 186,                                            
                                      'size' => '3697311744',                   
                                                         'start' => '2048',     
                                                                           
'real_device' => '/dev/sdb1'                                                    
                 };                                                             
                            $VAR2 = {                                           
                                                         'part_number' => '2',  
                                                                           
'fs_type' => '',                                                                
                   'pt_type' => 186,                                            
                                      'size' => '209715343',                    
                                                         'start' =>
'3697313792',                                                                   
        'real_device' => '/dev/sdb2'                                            
                         };                                                     
                                    Can't call method "get_resolution" on an
undefined value at -e line 1.                                    2/2:
kernel-desktop-latest
#################################################################  
You should
restart your computer for kernel-desktop-2.6.38.8-8.mga                         
        [root at watson bascule]#                                                  
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/dev/sdb is my second hard disk and there indeed two partitions on it, the 
first ext3 and the second LUKS

bascule
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