Bug#330583: Problem solved
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 10:59 +0100, Boris Kleibl wrote:
> Uff, I solved the problem, but what happened?
>
> As some days ago the new linux-image-2.6.14 was availlable, I did a
> fresh debian sid installation. Booting the system shows the same problem
> as mentioned above too. Hmmm! I tried to boot from a KNOPPIX 4.0.2 Live
> CD, it started up to the desktop, but showed the harddisk as not
> mountable! What the hell ... Perhaps the harddisk has a failure? I
> checked the mentioned drive with seagate seatools - all tests succeeded
> except the filesystem-test which shows a damaged master boot record.
> Strange! I tested the drive with the linux and windows tools not showing
> me any errors. So I deleted the vfat partition with windows and then the
> reboot with debian/sid 2.6.14 succeeded! Yippee! Now I wrote a new
> DOS-FAT on the drive, partitioned and formatted and all is ok.
>
> What changed between kernel 2.6.12 and kernel 2.6.13/14 so that the
> error got evidently?
Hard to say - could've been something in the code itself, or a result of
better hardware detection by either initramfs-tools or yaird. Either
way, I'm glad your problem went away. Thanks for letting us know.
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