On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:05:57AM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 10 February 2004 05:50, Todd Slater wrote: > > > > > > > > Anyway, when I try to boot, I get endless > > > > ldm_validate_partition failed messages. I do a hard reset and > > > > boot into nonfb or secure and everything seems normal. Any > > > > ideas on how to fix the "normal" boot? > > > > Todd, this is a well-documented issue with 9.1 - if you're on 9.2 I > don't know. Any removable disk that is mounted from an fstab fixed > line, such as I use for my LS120 drive, causes this if you boot > without a disk in. I keep an old floppy in my drive to avoid the > problem. If your card reader is mounted under /mnt/removable by the > system, just unplug it when you're not using it and the problem will > go away. HTH
Anne, I'm on 9.1. Thanks and I'll try unplugging the device and removing the line from /etc/fstab. The problem is the "why" is still annoying me--why all of a sudden did this start happening when I've been running it for quite a while without incident? I may have to do some deep meditation to get this out of my head! Todd
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