Unfortunately Im still stuck. The BIOS doesnt offer a boot priority as such, it offers boot sequence (with Enabling/Disabling per item). I managed to format SDA but I just cannot format SDB which has the boot on it. When I type the following commands I get the subsequent statements:
fdisk /dev/sdb p 1 Enter Enter w The kernel still uses the old table. mkfs.ext3 -m 0 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here! Thinking I might be able to get around this by dismounting the drive I tried to find how to dismount the drive. unmount doesnt work and apropos mount brings up mount: nothing appropriate. I cant find anything under mount, dismount or unmount in Clears web site, either. Looking at the Hardware Status in ClearOS Reports I get the following. A number of things seem curious: - 1) The HDA is the 8Gb CF and yet, somehow, the SDB thinks it's HDA3 - 2) both SDA & SDB are 1Tb yet the size is shown as 916Gb & 902 Gb respectively Ive lost nearly 100Gb per HDD Mount - Type - Partition - Free - Used - Size /boot - ext3 - /dev/hda1 - 60Mb - 11Mb - 75Mb / - ext3 - /dev/hda3 - 854Gb - 1Gb - 902GB /mnt/Drive1 - ext2 - /dev/sda1 - 916Gb - 200Mb - 916Gb Do I gather from the above that the SDB is somehow seeing itself as an HDA. I then powered down, swapped the SATA cables and rebooted. I got the following Hardware Status Report (note, SDA is now the old SDB which has the boot still on it). There was no CF (HDA) showing and no SDB: When I swapped the SATA cables around, the mounted file systems showed only: Mount - Type - Partition - Free - Used - Size / - ext3 /dev/sda1 - 854Gb - 1.29Gb - 902 Gb I have rebooted well over ten times and not managed to change anything. If I had access to an old PC Id just connect the troublesome disc to it and try to format it from there, however I dont have access to an old PC. Can you see any way out of this, per chance? Thanks. -- Shellness ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shellness's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78594
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