Re: mount USB drive at boot: fsck failure

[Bogart Salzberg <webmaster@inkfist.com>]

Running "lshw" on the box shows the motherboard as a Dell 0UW457, v.  
A03 with socket M2 and Nvidia GeForce 6150LE chipset. The BIOS  
version is about a year old (12/09/2006, v. 1.1.4), so it could  
probably use an upgrade.

Actually, if you have any tips on upgrading the BIOS from within  
Linux, give me a shout. Most of Dell's "solutions" for BIOS upgrade  
are convoluted or Windows-centric. I was playing around with the  
libsmbios utilities the other day. Perhaps there is something in  
there to help...

Thanks,

Bogart

On Dec 3, 2007, at 8:26 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:

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> On 12/03/07 18:56, Bogart Salzberg wrote:
> > Ron,
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> > Interesting: when the USB drive is on, the box stalls during POST.  
> > It is
> > apparently some kind of deadlock, because when I power down the drive
> > POST completes immediately.
>
> What motherboard?
>
>
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