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Re: Reinstallation problems



On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 03:12:58PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I had Hurd working fine in a 520 Mb hard-disk and I decided to move it
> to another hard disk. The new hard-disk is about 1,7 GB so I've done a
> partition of 900 MB ( < 1 GB). Well, after cross-installing hurd and
> booting in single user mode, I get that ext2fs.static can't mount the
> partition because it's too big.

The complete error message may be helpful. You should copy it from the
screen directly, and not summarize what you think it says.

> Now, my partition table of that hard disk looks like this:
> 
> Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 207 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdb1             1       115    923706   83  Linux
> 
> This is how I tried first to install it.
> 
> And to create the filesystem, I'm using the potato's e2fs utils with:
>    mke2fs /dev/hdb1 -O sparse_super -o none -L HURD
> which always worked for me in the old drive.

"-o none" is wrong! Where did you get this? It should be -o hurd.


> I'm using gnumach_1.2-5.deb and hurd_20000803.deb. Both worked fine
> also with the other drive.

Can you try gnuamch 1.2-6, please?

Thanks,
Marcus

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