Hi:
I've installed Etch r1 and the only real thing I've done to the system is updated the system, though during the update it updated the kernel to the same kernel that was installed during the installation (used the medium to try and get more control over Grub install).
The computer is about 2 years old, dual CPU Xeons, with 2 SATA drives and 2 SCSI drives. The system has not been highly used over the past 2 years. The system drive where Debian is installed is on a SATA 36 Gb Raptor that is just for the OS, drive was reformatted during install using ext3.
During boot the system appears to find all the drives OK when I am reading as fast as I can, but then I get the following (from a photo of the
screen messages)
Begin: Mounting root file system... ...
Begin: running /scripts/local-top ...
ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free.
ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide1: I/O resource 0x170-0x177 not free.
ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe
Done.
Begin: Waiting for root file system... ...
And it stops right there. 0's above may be 8's, can't tell from the picture.
I booted with Knoppix live and there is nothing in /var/log/messages, none of the logs appear to have changed since I last booted 2 days ago. I have not run fsck or anything else on this yet.
Ideas?
Thanks
Dave
e2fsck -f /dev/sda8 reported no errors for the 5 different passes when done from a superuser window in
Knoppix.