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How to boot Slackware from second hard disk when it was installed on first?
I first installed slackware with the drive in HDD1 slot, then once I got a caddy for HDD2, I reconnected the slackware drive to the HDD2 slot. (I have Windows on my HDD1).
Is there a way to boot ...
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Can not mount drive after installing windows vista
I have searched for weeks now and have not found an answer to my question. Hopefully you guys can give me a push in the right direction :)
Ok, here is what happened:
I have linux mint on a 1.5 TB ...
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Where to find the VBR on the /dev/sda1 partition?
I have one built-in hard disk /dev/sda which looks like this:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * ...
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How to skip/exclude one SCSI bus from scanning during boot?
A "Linux debian 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Aug 23 07:41:30 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux" system has at least 5 SCSI hosts:
root@debian:~# ls /sys/class/scsi_host
host0 host1 host2 host3 host4
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Why does e2fsck fail during boot, but not later?
When booting my Debian server, I'm presented with the following error concerning my external hard drive:
/dev/disk/by-label/elements:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ...
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Black Screen When Booting From .VDI Image
I have cloned a VirtualBox machine, which runs Ubuntu 11.04 32-bit as Guest OS.
I now wish to transfer it to a new host machine running Windows Vista 32-bit. I’ve transferred the .vdi file and ...
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GRUB won't boot, live CDs either
First, my computer crashed slowly, as if all the files were being deleted, then when I tried to reboot, GRUB just didn't show up. I also tried to boot on a live CD but it doesn't work either (yes, ...
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How to troubleshoot udev not creating /dev/hda3 on gentoo boot?
My old gentoo laptop seem to have an issue with udev probably due to me updating software using emerge, upgrading udev+kernel, getting some messages "do these things after upgrading udev/kernel" and ...
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How to mount external hard disk every time the server is restarted?
I have a server which the date will be backup to a external windows server hard disk which is mounted. But problem is every time the server is restarted I will need to mount the disk manually. How do ...
