Re: can't mount drive.

[Rob <amd64@rjs3.com>]

I had the same problem after an upgrade.  For me, it had to do with 
ide_disk and ide_core missing from /etc/modules.  I made sure the 
correct modules were working, then I could mount the drive again.  While 
that somewhat fixed the problem, my system still fails on boot up 
without intervention.  It gives me a maintenance prompt upon trying to 
mount my IDE drive and failing--then I just enter the maintenance 
prompt, type 'mount /dev/hda1' and it works, then I continue the boot.  
Not sure what's going on with mine either.

Thanks,
Rob

Chris Wakefield wrote:

> Greetings to all.
>
> I have an ide drive on my system that I can't mount for some reason.  I'm 
> currently running pure64.
>
> dmesg reports the drive being present:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> debian:/home/crow# dmesg|grep hda
> hda: Maxtor 6Y120P0, ATA DISK drive
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> However fdisk -l only issues this:
> ----------------------------------------------
> debian:/home/crow# fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 37.0 GB, 37019566080 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4500 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        2067    16603146   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2            2068        4255    17575110   83  Linux
> /dev/sda3            4256        4500     1967962+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> To make sure the drive is working, I performed an install to one of the 
> partitions of this drive and can boot to it via a floppy no problem at all.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening?
>
> Thanks in advance for any responses,
>
> Chris W.
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