Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote: > On Monday 18 March 2013 00:37:25 Michael Shell wrote: > >> Anyway, before you do anything, what we want to see what name the >> Toshiba and sda partitions are given when the Toshiba drive is >> already connected during boot. >> >> However, there is a big problem with getting that crucial information >> isn't there? Namely, that you can't just get it from a dmesg because >> the system will fail to boot. > > We partially solve this problem taking pictures of the boot messages: we put a > rootdelay= 50. > Kernel-1.jpg shows the boot process before the delay, Kernel-2.jpg shows the > process after delay, until panic. ( LFS partition, external disk connected ) > > You may find also the partition tables for sda and for the external disk sdb > as well as the dmesg results in the included files > > Regards, > Edgar > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8734485/Kernel_Panic_2/dmesg-sda-sdb-18032013 > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8734485/Kernel_Panic_2/Gparted-sda.png > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8734485/Kernel_Panic_2/Gparted-sdb.png > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8734485/Kernel_Panic_2/Kernel-1.JPG > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8734485/Kernel_Panic_2/Kernel-2.JPG Kernel-1.JPG shows sda-1to8 and sdb-1to11. I would conclude that, in this case, the laptop boots from the external HD.
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