Re: Is there a known problem with formatting ext3 partitions on AMD-64
On Friday 25 November 2005 12:45, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com> writes:
> > 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.
>
> Please paste the error message.
When I next start the machine I will post it. The installer just put up a
dialog saying that mounting the partition has failed.
>
> > 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%.
>
> Did you wait a while? mke2fs fills the cache and can then hang at the
> end for quite a while till the disk catches up writing.
Yes I left it for about an hour.
David
>
> > David
>
> MfG
> Goswin
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