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When the last beta release of Fiesty came out, I installed it using the Alternate cd, everything went smooth and I really enjoyed it. I didn't keep it installed long though because I wanted to wait for the final release.
Well, today I got the final release alternate and installed it. The install went fine but when I do the first boot it stops at the usb sda section as if it can't find the external usb drive.
It's a western digital 250gb HDD. Nothing has changed with the system. So why isn't Fiesty final not picking up on the external hdd?
When the last beta release of Fiesty came out, I installed it using the Alternate cd, everything went smooth and I really enjoyed it. I didn't keep it installed long though because I wanted to wait for the final release.
Well, today I got the final release alternate and installed it. The install went fine but when I do the first boot it stops at the usb sda section as if it can't find the external usb drive.
It's a western digital 250gb HDD. Nothing has changed with the system. So why isn't Fiesty final not picking up on the external hdd?
Any solutions on getting it to work?
Thnx.
It's not clear by your post, but is the external HDD the device that your machine should be booting off of??? Are we to assume that your OS is not booting at all (ie the external device WITH Feisty on it is not being detected) OR during the boot process (booting from an internal hard drive) it hangs when trying to detect this particular peripheral?
You may be missing a kernel module such as ehci_hcd or usb_storage. What is the external drive used for? Is it listed in /etc/fstab? If it doesn't contain a partition used as a system directory, then you could comment out the /etc/fstab entry , and boot without the drive plugged in, and hope the boot up process succeeds. Then see if modprobing a particular kernel module enables the drive to be seen. If that is the case, you could create a new initrd file containing the module so that it will be detected when you boot.
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