SYNOPSES
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Kernel fails to boot when multiple SATA drives are connected.  After a 
day of working on the problem (changing cables, sata positions, 
motherboards, CPUs, power supplies, etc.) I discovered that with only 
the boot drive connected everything worked fine.

BACKGROUND
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I had a career in UNIX so it is common for me to use cpio(1), tar(1), 
dump(1), and dd(1) to replicate disks but have not been able to do so 
with two SATA disks connected using older kernels but with this new 
kernel I could not even have the second disk connected.

PROBLEM APPEARED WHEN
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An Ubuntu kernel update stopped my computer from booting.  I have no 
backup computer so my description is sketchy because I was not willing 
to use a pencil and write the lengthy terse information.  Boot error 
message was something like:

Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:0f106d71e58
...
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/..... does not exist. Dropping to a shell!


Dan
DanVolkman@gmail.com