bootup error after adding sata hard drives

[cTurtle98]

hello so yesterday I built a new server.

the only storage in the system when I ran the installer was an m.2 ssd

I migrated the program from my old server to my new server and now I just need to move the data hard drives that those programs use (specifically emby but I dont think that matters)

When I plugged in the SATA drive and tried to boot this happened

https://photos.app.goo.gl/53qmvYoKV6jKMU7G3

but then I unplugged the sata drive and tried to boot again and it was fine

 

maybe because there were no sata drives in the system when I installed it, it never installed the sata controller drivers?

(the NIC drivers were non-free and I had to load them from a usb stick during install)

 

I have no clue what to do and have never installed drivers on a debian cli system before so if that is the problem I will need step by step help

 

anyone know what to do ?

[TheGlenlivet]

So just to make sure I go this, you installed the OS on the M.2, but when you plug the SATA into the MOBO you get the error?  Can you enable hot swapping and install them with the server booted up?

[cTurtle98]

1 hour ago, TheGlenlivet said:

So just to make sure I go this, you installed the OS on the M.2, but when you plug the SATA into the MOBO you get the error?

yes, when I installed the server the only drive in it was the m.2 and that is the boot drive with the os on it, also I checked the BIOS and it says the only boot device available is the m.2 (the hard drives are plugged in) so its not a problem of trying to boot from the hard drives because the BIOS does not see them as bootable drives (as they should be because they are just drives full of movies and tv shows for emby)

[cTurtle98]

2 hours ago, TheGlenlivet said:

Can you enable hot swapping and install them with the server booted up?

ok so I went into the bios and enable hot swap on the ports that the drives are on then I saved and shutdown and unplugged the drives.

 

then I booted up and with the drives unplugged it booted into debian

 

when I plugged the drives in this hapened:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/RuJf3TNAqypDR0Jg2

 

ciaran@98ST-98:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 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
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 9F758D13-864E-4E45-98F5-685BE56B50F2

Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1       2048   1050623   1048576   512M EFI System
/dev/sda2    1050624 233426943 232376320 110.8G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3  233426944 250068991  16642048     8G Linux swap


Disk /dev/sdb: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 4A3CFC04-9336-4DBD-B54B-AA25112C7BE2

Device     Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sdb1   2048 1953525134 1953523087 931.5G Linux filesystem


Disk /dev/sdc: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 36E02D2B-414B-4DFB-8D90-D5034C98F820

Device     Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sdc1   2048 1953525134 1953523087 931.5G Linux filesystem

 

[cTurtle98]

MORE DETAILS

 

the drives I am moving to my new server were setup on a computer running debian 8 (the old location of my media server)

(these drives are the storage for my emby (competitor to plex) media libary)

 

I setup the drives on the old system using this tutorial
http://www.debiantutorials.com/how-to-add-a-new-hard-disk-or-partition-using-uuid-and-ext4-filesystem/

[cTurtle98]

well i figured out how to fix it

I unplugged the drives and booted into debian with hotplug enabled on the drive's ports

I then plugged in the drives

then I ran 

sudo update-grub

then I rebooted and it worked like normal