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chipppy

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how do I force a search of second HDD for all media?
« on: May 24, 2009, 02:52:43 pm »
I have just installed 8.10a2 onto my second HDD (HDD2)so that i can play with it.
So far so good. 
I need to somehow force 8.10 to search HDD1 so that I can play my video and music files.  I havent had to do this before.
How do i force a search of HDD1?

HDD1 is the primary HDD

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Re: how do I force a search of second HDD for all media?
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2009, 04:04:26 pm »
Has it been recognized by the system and prompted you to tell it how to use the drive? If so it should index the drive automatically within a couple hours. If you want it to be done faster you can use the "media files sync" section in the web admin.
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Re: how do I force a search of second HDD for all media?
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2009, 04:30:48 pm »
yep done.

hey you dont know how to edit the grub file do you.  For some reason kgrub is installed but I cannot find the little bugger.
I want to edit it so that 8.10 is not the primary load.  I want to keep the system on 7.10 for the moment so that the kids can just press the on button and it automagic start into there normal setup.

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Re: how do I force a search of second HDD for all media?
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2009, 04:56:26 pm »
use any text editor (nano, vi, etc) to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
theres a line thats just "default" with a number after it, this number corresponds to the boot entry that will be chosen by default.
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Re: how do I force a search of second HDD for all media?
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2009, 05:03:52 pm »
/boot may not be mounted so in that case: sudo mount /boot
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Re: how do I force a search of second HDD for all media?
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2009, 06:06:50 pm »
/boot is not a separate filesystem with a default kubuntu or lmce install.
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