I recently installed Peppermint 5 to my wifes PC and after a small problem with video streaming everything is now good, however during the installation I forgot to copy over her .thunderbird folder I didn’t think this would be a problem as I installed Peppermint 5 on on a different drive leaving the old system intact for situations just like this, but now Peppermint 4 has suddenly decided it wont boot and it’s not showing in the list of filesystems in Peppermint 5
I’ve attached a screenshot showing the error message when trying to boot into Peppermint , There is another Linux OS installed on the same drive as Peppermint 4 and it wont boot either so I’m thinking this is a HDD problem
Are you saying you can only attach one disk at a time ?
if you can attach both, boot peppermint 5 with the other drive also attached post the output from:
sudo fdisk -l
and
blkid
If you can only attach one at a time, I’m gonna guess the UUID’s of the partitions has changed so GRUB cannot find them … you’ll need to boot a liveCD/LiveUSB and reinstall grub
Can you not mount the old install partition into P5 and then copy the .thunderbird folder accross?
No I can’t do that the old drive is not showing in mounted volumes, There are 2 operating systems installed on that drive and none are showing and none will boot even though there showing in the GRUB menu
Are you saying you can only attach one disk at a time ?
I’m not completely sure what you mean by “attach” both drives are installed in the PC each sharing the same IDE channel (master/slave)
I’ll post the outputs here in a few minutes
pat@Linux2 ~ $ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for pat:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00088b4a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 308387839 154192896 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 308389886 312580095 2095105 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 308389888 312580095 2095104 82 Linux swap / Solaris
pat@Linux2 ~ $ blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="2be008a9-5cc7-4549-b1f2-c02c7fd8f8b4" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="ace09511-90e3-4c31-ae14-e4c939ccff2b" TYPE="swap"
pat@Linux2 ~ $
Peppermint 5 is on sda1, Peppermint 4 (the os I can’t boot) is on sdb which I cant see listed above
That is strange as I have never seen fdisk not listing all the available drives
Have you tried to boot to a LiveCD and see if fdisk can see the second drive?
One other thing. Did you by any chance clone the second drive (clone of first drive)?
Have you tried to boot to a LiveCD and see if fdisk can see the second drive?
I haven’t yet, but I’ll do that after I write this post
One other thing. Did you by any chance clone the second drive (clone of first drive)?
No I didn’t clone
before I upgraded to Peppermint 5 Peppermint 4 was working fine so in the interests of safety I added a new drive and installed Peppermint 5 on that,
I made no changes to the original drive other than add it as a slave to the new drive, after installation was completed the first thing I did was make sure Peppermint 4 booted up (which it did) that was a week ago, I’ve never attempted to access Peppermint 4 again until today when I discovered this problem
peppermint@peppermint ~ $ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00088b4a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 308387839 154192896 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 308389886 312580095 2095105 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 308389888 312580095 2095104 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders, total 160836480 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00043822
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 58518317 29258135 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 58519550 160835583 51158017 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 156121088 160835583 2357248 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6 58519552 156121087 48800768 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
peppermint@peppermint ~ $ blkid
/dev/sr0: LABEL="Peppermint Five" TYPE="iso9660"
peppermint@peppermint ~ $
Looks like the old drive is listed now, the other good news (at least I hope it’s good news) is I can access the Peppermint 4 drive in mounted Volumes but when I try to copy the .thunderbird folder over to the Peppermint 5 volume I’m getting permission errors
Looks like the old drive is listed now, the other good news (at least I hope it's good news) is I can access the Peppermint 4 drive in mounted Volumes but when I try to copy the .thunderbird folder over to the Peppermint 5 volume I'm getting permission errors
Would suggest to copy the .thunderbird folder off onto a USB first from the live enviroment. Then boot to P5 and copy it back into the new install.
You may need to change the owner of the folder to the new user before first use.
I removed the cable from the Peppermint 5 drive and connected it to the Peppermint 4 drive and Peppermint 4 booted no problem and I’m currently copying the .thunderbird folder to a usb thumb drive, I was unable to copy the folder over in live session due to permission errors.
So i might be wrong but it looks to me that this is some kind of drive configuration problem ie I don’t have the jumpers set right or something like that
So i might be wrong but it looks to me that this is some kind of drive configuration problem ie I don't have the jumpers set right or something like that
Have you changed the second drive to slave and the first drive to master?
I’ve found the best way to copy off thunderbird and firefox directories is to make a tar.gz archive of them … then copy the archive off.
I’m assuming this is something to do with them both being on the same ribbon, I’ve had similar issues with IDE drives that just weren’t happy coexisting on the same cable.
try using cable select … or bunging the second drive on a separate IDE cable, maybe as master to a CDROM.
Have you changed the second drive to slave and the first drive to master?
I didn’t change any settings I only removed the ribbon cable from both drives and connected up the old drive (Peppermint4) as master leaving the new drive disconnected, so I haven’t really fixed anything but at least I’ve got the .thinderbird folder I wanted
Sorry if I don’t explain things well I’m not the most eloquent person in the world
Here’s something I know probably wont surprise you guys (being around computers as long as you have) it certainly didn’t surprise me, but I connected everything up the way it was and Peppermint 4 booted up no problem
