Am Sonntag, 19. Februar 2017, 07:37:50 CET schrieb Stephen P. Molnar: Hi Stepehen, did you try, to enter just the devices (like /dev/sda1, dev/sdb1 etc.) instead of using UUID?
If that is working, try to add the UUID later. Asd far as I know, there is also a kernel parameter, which inhibits to check for UUIDs. I blieve, it is nouuid, but I am not sure. I would think in that direction, maybe the UUIDs are wrong. Good luck! Hans > This will probably turn out to be a forehead slapping red faced problem, > but this used to work. > > I Had a Debian v-8.x catastrophe and had to reinstall. I have several > hard drives on the computer and, of course the installer only found > /dev/sda. > > Here are the results of blkid: > > comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo blkid > [sudo] password for comp: > /dev/sdb1: UUID="d65867da-c658-4e35-928c-9dd2d6dd5742" TYPE="ext4" > PARTUUID="0003d403-01" > /dev/sdb2: UUID="007c1f16-34a4-438c-9d15-e3df601649ba" TYPE="ext4" > PARTUUID="0003d403-02" > /dev/sda1: UUID="3a2e7e1d-3365-447b-85c5-f454a2f0b446" TYPE="ext4" > PARTUUID="cdf775c6-01" > /dev/sda5: UUID="92727ce9-2cff-40f5-b6d0-e9580afdeef3" TYPE="swap" > PARTUUID="cdf775c6-05" > > I edited fstab: > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a > # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices > # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). > # > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> > # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation > UUID=3a2e7e1d-3365-447b-85c5-f454a2f0b446 / ext4 > errors=remount-ro 0 1 > # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation > UUID=92727ce9-2cff-40f5-b6d0-e9580afdeef3 none swap sw > 0 0 > /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 > > #UUID=d65867da-c658-4e35-928c-9dd2d6dd5742 /dev/sdb1 ext4 > errors=remount-ro 0 1 > #UUID=007c1f16-34a4-438c-9d15-e3df601649ba /dev/sdb2 ext4 > errors=remount-ro 0 1 > > The problem is, that when I reboot the system it doesn't like the new > fstab entries and halts. It's easy to fix in recovery mode by > commenting out the new lines, but that doesn't solve the problem. > > My computer log doesn't record what actions I might had to take to get > this to work the last time it. happened. > > What have I missed? > > Thanks in advance.