----- Forwarded message from "Scotland O. Clark" <soclark@sbcglobal.net> ----- From: "Scotland O. Clark" <soclark@sbcglobal.net> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:25:12 -0700 To: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Subject: Re: Bug#364409: Partitioning failure during install of Sarge 3.1r2 Reply-To: soclark@sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) Joey Hess wrote: >Scotland O. Clark wrote: > > >>Using 3.1r2 (and 3.1r1), when install is writing changes to the >>partition tables using ext3 the partitioning utility either locks the >>system up altogether or spontaneously reboots it. >> >>System: ECS P4M800PRO-M v1.0 motherboard >> 1024MB Mushkin PC2700 memory >> Nvidia GeForce 2 video card >> 2 WD800 80GB hard drives >> >>The install proceeds normally until it gets to the partitioning, and the >>partitioning utility works properly until told to write the changes to >>the drives. >> >> > >So the kernel is not able to robustly support your drives, and locks up >during heavy access. Have you tried using the 2.6 kernel? Boot the >installer with "linux26". You might also try the etch beta 2 release, >which uses a newer 2.6 kernel by default. >http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer to download. > > > I did fix it by running install up through partitioning on a Intel 865PE board/2.8 P4. So it isn't the drives, but some instability in the board. I did try 2.6, both in and out of expert mode, and it failed both times. Just an FYI. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
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