CentOS - Feb 2008 - USB failure (was: Networking issue (after latest 5.1 update?))

On Feb 2, 2008 1:54 PM, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Something else nasty is going on because for the last three reboots
> the machine has only remained up for about 5 minutes at a time before
> it becomes unable to execute any new programs and has to be
> power-cycled to restart it.  I got one console message about a failed
> journal write before the second of those forced reboots.
This appears to be happening because the root filesystem is on a USB
drive and the system has lost track of the device, as if the cable had
been unplugged (even though it was not).  I was accidentally able to
see this happen while booted from the 5.0 CD in rescue mode, although
I can't determine steps to reproduce it.  In any case it's probably
unrelated to the networking question, and certainly unrelated to the
new kernel.