Hi,
I am trying to install RH9 from CD on a 40 Gig HD in a brand new system. Choose automatic partitioning with Disk Druid on hda, get the three recommended partitions:
dev/hda1 /boot ext3 102 MB 1 13 dev/hda2 / ext3 38492 MB 14 4933 dev/hda3 swap 510 MB 4934 4998
and when trying to install the packages I get a window saying "Formatting / filesystem" and the system freezes right there! After 1-2 minutes another warning "An error occured trying to format hda2. This problem is serious and the install cannot continue. Please to reboot your system". Choosing manual partitioning with Disk Druid produces the same output. I also tried to install Red Hat 8 and Mandrake 9.0 /9.1 and the same result: installation stops at partitioning!
Several times the install process produced a bug report regarding anaconda and asked me to save it on a diskette but the install terminated with a crash and I could not save the info!
A crash or a reboot follows and I have no clue what is the problem! Maybe my BIOS has a problem with the disk geometry! Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Felix _______________________________________
Le mar 05/08/2003 à 09:42, mafelix@apropo.ro a écrit :
Hi,
I am trying to install RH9 from CD on a 40 Gig HD in a brand new system. Choose automatic partitioning with Disk Druid on hda, get the three recommended partitions:
dev/hda1 /boot ext3 102 MB 1 13 dev/hda2 / ext3 38492 MB 14 4933 dev/hda3 swap 510 MB 4934 4998
and when trying to install the packages I get a window saying "Formatting /filesystem" and the system freezes right there! After 1-2 minutes another warning "An error occured trying to format hda2. This problem is serious and the install cannot continue. Please to reboot your system". Choosing manual partitioning with Disk Druid produces the same output. I also tried to install Red Hat 8 and Mandrake 9.0 /9.1 and the same result: installation stops at partitioning!
Several times the install process produced a bug report regarding anaconda and asked me to save it on a diskette but the install terminated with a crash and I could not save the info!
A crash or a reboot follows and I have no clue what is the problem! Maybe my BIOS has a problem with the disk geometry! Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Try to do the formating manually with in the rescue mode (CD1 : "linux rescue").
Check the partitions with fdisk "fdisk -l /dev/hda"
To format /dev/hda1 with a ext3 filesystem, use "mke2fs -j /dev/hda1".
Hope this help.
I file a bug for phoebe but i don't reply (no enough time, sorry) : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80494
I see the same problem with severn. fdisk -l /dev/hda (output from RH9). Disk /dev/hda: 20.5 GB, 20520493056 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2494 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 6 40792+ 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. <======== /dev/hda2 * 6 135 1038744 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. <======== /dev/hda3 135 2446 18566856 83 Linux /dev/hda4 2446 2479 265104 82 Linux swap
Everything was clean before the installation of severn on /dev/md0 (raid0, /dev/hde2, /dev/hdg2).
Currently, i can't re-run fdisk on my /dev/hda disk (not enough backup capability :-)).
Felix _______________________________________
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