Re: installation errors

thanks martin,

i have only the primary disk that i want to contain the system partition(s) on connected via the bottom port, which is where i have always had it connected.

during the stage to partition the disk, i initially specified separate partitions and let it calculate the partition sizes automatically, and it results in a 98M swap partition. is this too small? perhaps its running out of memory? is there a recommended size for this? i have seen an article on nslu2-linux about debian installer disconnecting due to swap space sizes. i have tried editing this partition to make it larger, but it says that i cannot make it larger (perhaps because all the other partitions are already defined so it thinks it has no space left?)

the 2 other disks i have are connected via a usb hub into the 2nd port. these disks contain an lvm volume/partition that i am hoping to be able to restore (never tried before!) as it has my media stored on it! (it was the system partition that wouldnt boot so i believe these disks are intact)

Regards,

Dan Burt

----- Original Message ----
From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
To: Dan Burt <jingo_man_dan@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: Rod Whitby <rod@whitby.id.au>; debian-boot@lists.debian.org
Sent: Friday, 17 August, 2007 7:55:15 AM
Subject: Re: installation errors

* Dan Burt <jingo_man_dan@yahoo.co.uk> [2007-08-16 21:28]:
> However, after numerous re-installations, I still have the root
> problem - the slug doesn't seem to pick up disks on boot. Is there a
> way to test this, given I have no console port?

Do you have one drive connected to your slug when this happens or more
than one?
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/