Hi, On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 04:15:58PM +0100, AONZ68 wrote: > As soon as I use a kernel with ext3 support boot up freezes with: > > "Partition Check: /dev/bus/etc/with/ide/bus" Filesystems have nothing to do with partition checks. I'd double-check your kernel config first. > What causes the partituion check to crash the whole system? Even a soft > reset is impossible. It looks like a common problem with some current IDE driver/controller combinations --- there are IOs failing to complete, so the first time you try to read data from the disk, things lock up. That occurs during the partition read. Try booting with the "ide=nodma" kernel option; that may work-around the problem. Cheers, STephen
