On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:47:19 -0700 (PDT), Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > During a reinstall onto a dual boot partitioned hard > drive I have twice in a row been stopped during the > unpacking of the packages selected using 'tasksel'. > Both times the error was a 'busy' coming from the > 'hda' device. I think that is the CD-ROM, right? >
hda is the device attached to the first IDE channel as "master", hdb is the device set as "slave". > The machine will get stuck polling this interrupt > until I shut it off and try and reboot. This proves > impossible; it asks me to remount the root directory > as read/write and run 'fsck' by hand but the 'mount' > doesn't work. > Could be a fault flat cable, or a dying HD. You can test the latter downloading an utility from the manufacturer of your HD to check it. Oh, and the CD-Rom could have problem to read disk too, specially if dust has accumulated on the lens, or if the CD isn't burned correctly or the media is cheap... Andrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
