Booting problem with latest rawhide

[Todd Denniston]

Andrew Farris wrote, On 11/30/2007 06:01 AM:
> 
> Have you tried booting from the cd and fsck the root partition?  During the boot
> process the root partition will get mounted readonly, then unmounted and
> remounted r/w.  It may be its failing to do that for a specific reason due to
> the filesystem.
> 
> BTW, its not an external western digital usb2/firewire drive by chance?
> 

Clue request:
what (in general) is wrong with using one of those western digital usb2 drives 
to boot from?
I ask because I intend to.

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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter