On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Jeme A Brelin <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Bill Barry wrote:
> > I was mostly ignoring the EXT3 error on the root device and thinking
> > that the root device is using SATA and the Radeon video is using PCI and
> > the common thing between those is the PCI bus. One is messing up the
> > other by some unknown conflict over the PCI Bus. You know the root
> > device is working with the onboard video.  This shifts attention to the
> > plugin video card. The combination onboard video and and plugin video
> > card has caused on and off trouble since the PC and its bios first came
> > into existence. I was thinking that the bios was not completely turning
> > off the onboard video so the kernel was loading the modules for the
> > onboard video and they were conflicting with the modules needed for the
> > Radeon and the side effect was that your root device was giving strange
> > errors.  But I could have wandered down the wrong path?
>
> I think you've not wandered down the wrong path.  I inadvertantly lied to
> you!
>
> The pci=use_crs had no discernible effect.  The address collision error is
> still there.  I think you're right about that being the real thing to be
> resolved.
>
> The root drive is PATA/IDE, but there are also two SATA drives.  When
> mounting ANY of those drives using the BusyBox prompt after the failure to
> mount the root filesystem when the external video is engaged, I get the
> same EXT3-fs error.  The devices show up fine in /dev/disks/, but mounting
> them doesn't fly.
>
> This is pretty frustrating.  Thanks to anyone thinking about this problem
> or following along.
>
> J.
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Something is breaking the superblock or journal with that Radeon installed.
That is super weird. I was on my phone yesterday when I responded so I
couldn't dig into it more.

Can you fsck the disk after you've been dropped to busybox?

Drew-
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