Anyone know why linux (Knoppix) might fail to access a drive? I'm helping someone try to get Knoppix to run on their laptop, but it keeps freezing when trying to access the HDD. I had them boot with failsafe and then run the following commands:
set -x cat /proc/cmdline cat /proc/partitions fdisk -l /dev/hd? which produced this output: + cat /proc/cmdline ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us vga=normal atapicd nosound noapic noacpi pnpbios=off acpi=off nofstab noscsi nodma noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce nodhcp xmodule=vesa initrd=minirt.gz BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix BOOT_IMAGE=linux 3 + cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 3 0 19535040 hda 240 0 1942016 cloop0 + fdisk -l /dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/hdc /dev/hdd /dev/hde /dev/hdf /dev/ hdg /dev/hdh It's on the fdisk command that Knoppix would just hang. Knoppix sees the drive (/dev/hda) as 20 GB, it just can't access it. Any thoughts? Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
