Todd Denniston wrote:
Andrew Farris wrote, On 11/30/2007 06:01 AM:
>
> Have you tried booting from the cd and fsck the root partition?
> During the boot
> process the root partition will get mounted readonly, then unmounted and
> remounted r/w. It may be its failing to do that for a specific reason
> due to
> the filesystem.
>
> BTW, its not an external western digital usb2/firewire drive by chance?
>
Clue request:
what (in general) is wrong with using one of those western digital usb2
drives to boot from?
I ask because I intend to.
Sorry I doubt there is reason to panic in general, but I have one causing me
problems being used on a firewire interface (wd caviar ide drive in external
enclosure). The external drive cannot be turned on when I boot the kernel or it
panics out with cryptic messages galore (orb2 noreply stuff). The drive works
fine if its not turned on when I boot the machine, so there is no way I could
install to this drive. The problem has only recently started with F8 kernels
since just before release and I have one older kernel that does not do this.
I was just wondering if there was any common issue with the OP, but it seems
not, so go for your install plan!
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