System ASUS Motherboard, P4, 4GB Memory, 2 320GB Sata drives, 2 DVD Drives, IDE. openSUSE 11.0, ( linux 2.6.25.11-0.1-pae #1 SMP 2008-07-13 20:48:28) Dual boot opensuse 11.0 and openSUSE 10.3. Yesterday I added a new drive (USB) { actually120GB IDE drive in shuttle that converts it to USB. Purpose was a drive to back my data too. The drive was recognized and I displaced and cleared old data off it. I then used the YaST partitioner to create two partitions, 75GB mount point /linuxbackup and 25GB mount point /windowsbackup. I then right clicked each icon and did a remove safely since there was no unmount option. That is how i do it with my Scandisk thumb drive. Then shutdown and rebooted,system keep going to the root login then, repair mode. kept getting message superblock bad magic.on the drive I had just removed, tried fsck as suggested by the message using backup super block. no luck fixing. Finally tried booting into 10.3 and that worked. went back to 11.0 installation --> boot loader, installed new boot loader and rebooted and system came back up. My questions are what is the correct way to shut this USB disk down so I do not have to install a new boot loader each time? Should my mount point be /media/disk instead (thats what the thumb drive does)? I know if I do not disconnect the thumb drive before shutting down, it does not boot up correctly. Any help or pointers will be appreciated. I need a back up before I try installing Virtualbox. -- Russ Linux register user 441463 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 09:30:22 am russbucket wrote:
My questions are what is the correct way to shut this USB disk down so I do not have to install a new boot loader each time? Should my mount point be /media/disk instead (thats what the thumb drive does)? I know if I do not disconnect the thumb drive before shutting down, it does not boot up correctly.
Any help or pointers will be appreciated. I need a back up before I try installing Virtualbox. --
With my two USB hard drives, I do exactly the same as with the thumb drives. I plug them in, they show up in Konqueror, then I right-click to remove when done. Maybe the partitioning did something? -- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 01:44:01 pm Kai Ponte wrote:
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 09:30:22 am russbucket wrote:
My questions are what is the correct way to shut this USB disk down so I do not have to install a new boot loader each time? Should my mount point be /media/disk instead (thats what the thumb drive does)? I know if I do not disconnect the thumb drive before shutting down, it does not boot up correctly.
Any help or pointers will be appreciated. I need a back up before I try installing Virtualbox. --
With my two USB hard drives, I do exactly the same as with the thumb drives. I plug them in, they show up in Konqueror, then I right-click to remove when done.
Maybe the partitioning did something?
-- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request
Thanks I was wondering about that. I think I'll reinstall it, clear it off and change the mount points to /media/disk like the thumb drives. the mount points -- Russ Linux register user 441463 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
russbucket wrote:
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 01:44:01 pm Kai Ponte wrote:
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 09:30:22 am russbucket wrote:
My questions are what is the correct way to shut this USB disk down so I do not have to install a new boot loader each time? Should my mount point be /media/disk instead (thats what the thumb drive does)? I know if I do not disconnect the thumb drive before shutting down, it does not boot up correctly.
Any help or pointers will be appreciated. I need a back up before I try installing Virtualbox. --
With my two USB hard drives, I do exactly the same as with the thumb drives. I plug them in, they show up in Konqueror, then I right-click to remove when done.
Maybe the partitioning did something?
-- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request
Thanks I was wondering about that. I think I'll reinstall it, clear it off and change the mount points to /media/disk like the thumb drives. the mount points
When you redo it, give it a LABEL; then, it will always mount in /media/LABEL. Ed -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 05:23:42 pm Ed Harrison wrote:
russbucket wrote:
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 01:44:01 pm Kai Ponte wrote:
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 09:30:22 am russbucket wrote:
My questions are what is the correct way to shut this USB disk down so I do not have to install a new boot loader each time? Should my mount point be /media/disk instead (thats what the thumb drive does)? I know if I do not disconnect the thumb drive before shutting down, it does not boot up correctly.
Any help or pointers will be appreciated. I need a back up before I try installing Virtualbox. --
With my two USB hard drives, I do exactly the same as with the thumb drives. I plug them in, they show up in Konqueror, then I right-click to remove when done.
Maybe the partitioning did something?
-- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request
Thanks I was wondering about that. I think I'll reinstall it, clear it off and change the mount points to /media/disk like the thumb drives. the mount points
When you redo it, give it a LABEL; then, it will always mount in /media/LABEL.
Ed
Thanks I'll do that. -- Russ Linux register user 441463 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2008-07-30 at 18:33 -0700, russbucket wrote:
On Wednesday 30 July 2008 05:23:42 pm Ed Harrison wrote:
When you redo it, give it a LABEL; then, it will always mount in /media/LABEL.
Thanks I'll do that.
And check the contents of the fstab file. If your external drive is listed there, depending of how, it may try to mount it at boot, or fsck it, or both; and halt the boot process if the drive is not found. Using a label, as Ed suggest, usually cures them. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIkZPrtTMYHG2NR9URAgpCAJ9iJRiINpjjnTg80jUJAwaTsKpdPgCdHK9h /lbHGR1IkSdtAPPvDzPMe7A= =de1d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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