Feisty on USB 2.0 hdd

[Paul S]

Nagy Szabolcs said the following on 07/12/2007 05:39 PM:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I installed Feisty Fawn again on my external hdd. Since for the 
> installation I got rid of my internal hard drive on my Dell D600 I did 
> not have any problems with the installation itself. I rebooted with 
> restart several times, everything went fine
> However when I shut down, and rebooted afterwards the screen froze with 
> the ubuntu sign when the little orange worm on the screen was only about 
> a millimeter long.

If you're using grub, then when the grub menu comes up you can enable 
messages, which may give you some tips:
1) hilite your feisty in the menu
2) hit "e" to enter edit mode
3) hilite the kernel line and hit "e" to enter edit mode
4) use the backspace or arrow keys to remove the words "quiet" and 
"splash" from the line, then hit "enter"
5) hit "b" to boot the revised commands
6) pay attention to what scrolls by .. write down the exact words of the 
errors and do a google search for those words for help.

> I did this several times before I realized that plugging the USB 2.0 
> hard drive in and out when I get the frozen screen solves my problem and 
> Feisty boots fine.
> I have read somewhere on the net that windows unmounts and mounts all 
> USB devices when starting up. Does linux do the same? And if so, how can 
> I stop it from unmounting my USB external hdd at the beginning of the 
> boot process?

You're doing something most people don't .. so you may know more that we 
do right now.  If you don't get an answer here, try googling for more / 
better help.

HTH