Re: large disks in Cobalt Qube 2

[Chris Thomas <sruchris@gmail.com>]

I decided to upgrade my Qube2 yesterday. I added a sata card, 1TB sata
drive and connected a 1GB compact flash card using a CF-IDE adapter. I
then started the Debian install, using net boot and nfs. The installer
didn't recognize the sata drive, so I installed the entire system on
the 1GB cf card. When I rebooted, the kernel recognized the sata drive
and the system booted perfectly.

Then, using a different computer, I moved the root directory from the
cf card to the sata drive and modified fstab accordingly. I then
created a single boot partition on a second cf card which is 32MB and
copied over the files in the boot directory. I then modified
default.colo accordingly.

Now my Qube won't boot. Here's what I get:

10.PCI Expansion Slot....................**EMPTY**
12.IDE Test................................PASS
13.Ethernet Test...........................PASS
16.RTC Test................................PASS
BOOTLOADER ramcode: selected partition /dev/hda1
Decompressing done
Executing bootloader kernel...
Jump_to_Real_Kernel: disk error, trying BFD again
BOOTLOADER ramcode: selected partition /dev/hdc1
Decompressing - done
Executing bootloader kernel...
Jump_to_Real_Kernel: disk error, trying BFD again
get_root_dev: nr_boot_failures 0x00000002 exceeds maxtries 0x00000002 for
boot_index 0x00000000
*** halting ***

Any thoughts? I tried a dozen or so different combinations of using
/dev/sda1 or /dev/hda1 in default.colo and fstab, creating/removing a
swap partition and shrinking the boot partition all resulting in the
error above.

-Chris




On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> --- On Mon, 22/2/10, Chris Thomas <sruchris@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Chris Thomas <sruchris@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: large disks in Cobalt Qube 2
>> To: debian-mips@lists.debian.org
>> Date: Monday, 22 February, 2010, 17:13
>> I'm thinking about buying a 1-2 TB
>> SATA drive and installing it into
>> the Qube 2 via a SATA -> PATA adapter. I'll use a CF
>> card for the boot
>> partition.  Are there any obvious reasons why this
>> setup wouldn't
>> work?
>>
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> I think it'd work, but it might be a bit painful storing so much data on such a slow device.
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> My qube2 used to be a fileserver too, it was okay, but these days it just serves some webpages and my emails whilst the files are now on a newer machine with a raid card.
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