Re: large disks in Cobalt Qube 2
I decided the cf card wasn't worth the trouble and went with a 2.5in
hard drive. It now works as expected. Here's a photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8371624@N07/4518153166/in/set-72157623722014355/
-Chris
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Chris Thomas <sruchris@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> I think it'd work, but it might be a bit painful storing so much data on such a slow device.
>>
>> 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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