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Re: Hang during install to SATA



Paul Gear wrote:
> I'm still trying my hardest to migrate to Debian from Red Hat, and so i
> bought two new Western Digital 200 Gb SATA hard disks.  My goal is to
> set them up as a software RAID 1 set.  Unfortunately, i've had two
> problems so far.
> 
> Firstly, it doesn't seem possible to use the partitioning scheme i'd
> prefer, which is a small (e.g. 200-500 Mb) /boot, largish (e.g. 4 Gb)
> swap, and the remainder of the drive in /.  (This is the scheme that's
> always worked well for me under Red Hat/Fedora.)  Is that correct?

I don't understand why you'd think that is impossible. Choose "manual
partitioning" and you have complete control over how the partition table
is set up.

> Secondly, whenever i try to set up RAID devices, as soon as the first
> one is made, the system hangs.  It's not that it's just slow because
> it's syncing the mirror - its actually hung.  Switching VCs doesn't
> work, neither does caps/num lock.  It locks up *hard*.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what i can try to get this
> install working?  I have used the sarge TC1 netinst CD, as well as the
> latest (20040705) snapshot.

Are you booting the 2.4 or the 2.6 kernel? If you've not already tried
it, boot with "linux26" using the daily snapshot. Perhaps the newer
kernel in there will not have the same problem.

-- 
see shy jo

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