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I was playing with antoher PC hard drive which have a broken MBR so they can be used only to store data. They can have any OS. Trying to get ...
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    Hard Drive Experients, Ubuntu won't start

    I was playing with antoher PC hard drive which have a broken MBR so they can be used only to store data. They can have any OS.
    Trying to get the data from those drives I disconnected my CD-ROM & CD-RW but grub was returning error 16 & 17 then I leave everything back to normal.
    Now when Ubuntu is loading It says that I can't find hdd2 and I don't know why?.
    Can someone help me out with this?

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    It is looking for the second partition on the slave drive that is connected to your Secondary IDE Interface..

    hda - Primary IDE Master
    hdb - Primary IDE slave
    hdc - Secondary IDE master
    hdd - Secondary IDE slave

    hdx1 first partition
    hdx2 second partition
    hdx3 third partition
    hdx4 fourth partition
    kdx5 first logical partion
    hdx6 second logical partition
    etc..


    so hdd2 is the second partition on the secondary IDE slave drive..
    What drive do you have connected in the Secondary IDE slave position ?

    if you do a cat /etc/fstab you should be able to see what it's trying to mount. you can edit /etc/fstab to modify what drives and partitions are mounted at startup...
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    This is odd. I have this config:

    hda --
    hdb My unique HD
    hdc CD-RW
    hdd CD-ROM

    So why whil loading is asking for hdd2? it never existed!!

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    did you at any time hook the other HD you were working on to the cable that CD ROM drives are attached to ?

    well regardless, you will need to edit your /etc/fstab and at the very least remove the entry that wants to mount /dev/hdd2
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    Unfortunaly, Kubuntu doesn't boot until that point is drops a shell when it's trying after loading modules, so no filesystem mounted

    [EDITED]
    Well I used my knoppix and now I just edited my dstab but on while loading is still asking for /dev/hdd2, now I just don't know what to do... ideas?

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