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   Message 29,461 of 29,919   
   unruh to faeychild   
   Re: error after rescue HD cont   
   21 Nov 13 19:28:35   
   
   From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2013-11-21, faeychild  wrote:   
   >   
   > Finally overcame my laziness and fears.   
   > successfully edited the fstab and the partition now mount in the correct   
   > places.   
   > Thanks to all.   
   >   
   > But a small point . During boot the system hangs   
   >   
   > "waiting for device sdb2 to appear"   
   >   
   > and then   
   >   
   > "could not find resume device  "   
   >   
   > There was a sdb2 on the old disk but not the new one. There is no mention of   
   > sdb2  in fstab.   
      
   Probably the UUID was pointing to sdb2 which used, I presume, to be a swap   
   partition.   
   It is probably coming from /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst  where the   
   system is told what the resume device is.   
      
   >   
   > where is coming from   
   >   
   >   
   > edited new fstab   
   >   
   > cat /etc/fstab   
   > # Entry for /dev/sda3 :   
   > UUID=d8e2a51f-c9b5-4aef-80cd-c4bf0b4f626c / ext4 acl,relatime 1 1   
   > /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0   
   > none /proc proc defaults 0 0   
   > # Entry for /dev/sdc5 :   
   > UUID=e9445c46-9af7-419b-a7db-2df22354ef64 /video ext4 acl,relatime 1 2   
   > #  Entry for /dev/sdb1   
   > UUID=0f9247d9-28b0-4fea-9c9f-ea88ce273f0c  /data ext4 acl,relatime 1 2   
   > # Entry for /dec/sdb5   
   > UUID=c1398fe7-68d0-44c3-8892-7ff941ae6ccf swap swap defaults 0 0   
   >   
   >   
   > current partition layout   
   >   
   > blkid   
   > /dev/sda1: UUID="02381ec9-93ea-4fb0-bab0-d9ca6ec7f33a" SEC_TYPE="ext2"   
   > TYPE="ext3"   
   > /dev/sda2: UUID="8ed20883-ac8c-4566-8648-cfd8ce87eb80" SEC_TYPE="ext2"   
   > TYPE="ext3"   
   > /dev/sda3: UUID="d8e2a51f-c9b5-4aef-80cd-c4bf0b4f626c" TYPE="ext4"   
   > /dev/sdb1: UUID="0f9247d9-28b0-4fea-9c9f-ea88ce273f0c" TYPE="ext4"   
   > /dev/sdb5: UUID="c1398fe7-68d0-44c3-8892-7ff941ae6ccf" TYPE="swap"   
   > /dev/sdc5: UUID="e9445c46-9af7-419b-a7db-2df22354ef64" TYPE="ext4"   
   >   
   >   
   > where would I look for the rogue "sdb2"  entry   
   >   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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