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    Two HDDs? I only have one...

    Well, I just upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04, and I was shocked when I noticed how long it took to boot... I did some research on my own and I think I might know what the problem is. When my Kubuntu tries to boot, it writes things like these on screen (I deactivated de splash screen):

    ata6.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
    ata6.00: cmd c4/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 pio 4096 in
    ata6.00: status: {DRDY}
    ata6.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
    ata6.00: SRST failed (errno=-16)

    It repeats some of these lines many times... Well, doing some research, I came to the conclusion that my Kubuntu for some reason thinks I have two Hard Drives... What makes me think this? 3 things:
    1. When I go to System Settings >> Advanced >> Disk & FIlesystems, I see my actual HD (with all my partitions), and a second drive, called "Disk Config Disk"
    2. In my /dev/ directory I see sda, sda1, sda2, sda3, sda5, sda6 and sdb... What's that sdb doing there!?
    3. If I do "sudo lshw" I find:
    *-disk:0 (with all its things)
    *-disk:1
    description: SCSI Disk
    physical id: 1
    bus info: scsi@5:0.0.0
    logical name: /dev/sdb
    size: 320KiB (327KB)

    What is that disk 1

    Well, I believe my kubuntu tries to boot at sdb first... So, I would like to know two things:
    1. How can I make it boot on sda?
    2. How can I make sdb dissapear?


    That's it. I hope I made some sense (I don't know too much about these things, so maybe I just made all this up, lol...). Thanks in advance.

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    Re: Two HDDs? I only have one...

    No one? Please, I really want that sdb to be gone...

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      Re: Two HDDs? I only have one...

      I'm going to guess that you have another OS on your system - Windoze XP or Vista - or that one of them was originally installed and removed before/during installation of HH? Is this correct? I'll assume 'yes' and therefore, suggest that what you are seeing is the 'recovery' partition that wasn't removed before installing HH.
      Windows no longer obstructs my view.
      Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
      "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes

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        Re: Two HDDs? I only have one...

        Originally posted by Snowhog
        I'm going to guess that you have another OS on your system - Windoze XP or Vista - or that one of them was originally installed and removed before/during installation of HH? Is this correct? I'll assume 'yes' and therefore, suggest that what you are seeing is the 'recovery' partition that wasn't removed before installing HH.
        Before installing 8.04, I had Windows XP and Kubuntu 7.10, both working perfectly. I then upgraded Kubuntu to 8.04... After that, I formatted my Windows partition and reinstalled Windows there (I had a problem with a game, it wouldn't run and I ended up breaking some things). Then, I lost grub's boot screen, so I booted Kubuntu from the live DVD, and did this:

        $ sudo grub
        grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
        grub> root (hd0,2)
        grub> setup (hd0)
        grub> quit

        After that, the boot selection screen reappeared, but my Kubuntu took ages to load. What I can't remember is if it didn't take that long just after upgrading Kubuntu, as I only rebooted once then...

        Originally posted by Teunis
        You might find out more by running GParted or KwikDisk, these programs will show you the hardware available.
        I'll try that out as soon as I boot Kubuntu. I'm studying now and I need some things from Windows...

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