Todd Denniston wrote:
Andrew Farris wrote, On 11/30/2007 06:01 AM:
Have you tried booting from the cd and fsck the root partition? During the boot process the root partition will get mounted readonly, then unmounted and remounted r/w. It may be its failing to do that for a specific reason due to the filesystem.
BTW, its not an external western digital usb2/firewire drive by chance?
Clue request: what (in general) is wrong with using one of those western digital usb2 drives to boot from? I ask because I intend to.
Sorry I doubt there is reason to panic in general, but I have one causing me problems being used on a firewire interface (wd caviar ide drive in external enclosure). The external drive cannot be turned on when I boot the kernel or it panics out with cryptic messages galore (orb2 noreply stuff). The drive works fine if its not turned on when I boot the machine, so there is no way I could install to this drive. The problem has only recently started with F8 kernels since just before release and I have one older kernel that does not do this.
I was just wondering if there was any common issue with the OP, but it seems not, so go for your install plan!