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:
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debian:/home/crow# dmesg|grep hda
hda: Maxtor 6Y120P0, ATA DISK drive
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However fdisk -l only issues this:
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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
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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.