RE: Is there a known problem with formatting ext3 partitions on AMD-64
I have done quite a few installations onto different hardware/storage
devices and have only had one issue quite recently using an intel (megaraid)
SATA controller and that was hardware related, I could see the logical raid
5 device as /dev/sda and I could partition it but when doing a mke2fs -j
/dev/sda1 right at the end of creating the ext3 filesystem it would kernel
panic.
Thank you,
Mark Adrian Coetser
mark@tux-edo.co.za
http://www.tux-edo.co.za, http://www.thummb.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Goodenough [mailto:david.goodenough@btconnect.com]
Sent: 24 November 2005 04:42 PM
To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
Subject: Is there a known problem with formatting ext3 partitions on AMD-64
I have a machine I am trying to install Debian on. It is an AMD-64 and has
a DPT RAID card. The disks appear on the I2O bus.
The Debian installer recognises them (once I have told it to load the right
driver), and partitions them, but there is a problem when it comes to
formatting them for EXT-3.
Either through the installer, or manually on VC2, the format seems to go
OK, but when I come to mount it, mount complains of an invalid parameter.
The manual mount command I tried was:-
mount -t ext3 /dev/i2o/hda/part1 /target
/target exists, as does the /dev/i2o/hda/part1.
The I2O maintainer is a bit confused as to why the disk is not called
/dev/i2o/hda1, but that appears to be a Debianism.
I also tried putting a small IDE drive on this box, and then I tried to
format
it using the installer, and that hung at 100%.
David
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