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. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > 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- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
