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roxxe

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Posted: April 20 2005,16:29

when i boot with 1.01 the cd boots and i get a nice colorful booting process, but when it gets to "scanning for harddisk partitions and creating /etc/fstab ..." it stops there, its taking forever, what should i do? thanx
i have a laptop with 2gig ext2 partitions and 512mb swap

cbagger01

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Posted: April 20 2005,16:37

Try booting with

failsafe

at the boot prompt.

roxxe

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Posted: April 20 2005,16:49

the same

green
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Posted: Sep. 07 2005,22:22

"scanning for harddisk partitions and creating /etc/fstab ..."

the above is as far as DSL is getting when my USB memory stick is in the USB port on my IBM T21 ThinkPad during boot.
The USB thingy is a PQI Intellistick 1Gb.
If I boot DSL without the USB thingy plugged in, and then insert the USB thingy after boot, it is not recognized by hotplug, but then again, I do not have anything that is USB that is hotpluggable.

Any ideas?

green

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Posted: Sep. 07 2005,23:24

okay, here's what i did to resolve my problem:

I plugged in the USB thingy, DSL didn't lock up this time, so I envoked QtParted.dsl which i already had.
It saw the USB thingy as sda so I highlighted it, deleted the partition, and then told it to format as FAT32.
Problem solved. After reboot, DSL see's it as sda and seems to work fine.
Prior to this, I was unable to use cfdisk or fdisk from the CLI. Don't know why, but it works now.

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