boot drops to grub prompt, disk error

[Colin Law]

On 29 June 2017 at 02:30, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 14:13 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> Which disk is it booting off? Assuming it is the one that it *is*
>> seeing then unplug the other one and see if it is then ok.
>
> I'm actually no longer convinced there is a second physical disk.
>
> When grub talks about hd0 and hd1, are those separate physical disks?
> Or could they be partitions?
>
>> You have not said whether all was working ok and then it stopped, or
>> whether the problem started when you connected the second disc.
>
> It was working OK and then it stopped.

I suggest starting by unplugging the connectors to the discs and
reconnecting them. It is not unknown for a dodgy connection to give
intermittent operation and reseating them may repair the connection.

Colin

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