Re: can't mount drive.

[Chris Wakefield <c_wakefield@shaw.ca>]

Thanks Rob,

Loading the ide_disk module did it.  I'm guessing that ide_core loaded with 
ide_disk, as I was able to mount the harddrive after running modprobe against 
ide_disk.
My /etc/modules didn't have ide_disk listed either.

Chris W.

On December 19, 2004 11:04 pm, Rob wrote:
> 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.