Re: Initializing linux partition on install results in reboot.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:53:31PM -0500, Joel Schander wrote:
> I'm attempting to install Debian 3.0r1 on a Umax SuperMac 603e/200. It
> is OldWorld, so I made floppies of the boot disk (boot-floppy-hfs.img)
> and root disk (root.bin). The former boots the box just fine, and the
> second is ejected before starting the actually install. At this point, I
> partitioned the drive as I wanted it but am not having much luck getting
> beyond this point.
What does your partition map look like?
> Attempting to Initialize and Activate Swap Partition resulted in the box
> apparently sitting idle for about three minutes, then rebooting. This
> occured a couple times, but I guess was eventually successful as I'm now
> prompted to Initialize a Linux Partition. When I attempt to do this,
> however, the box essentially does the same thing. It goes to a screen
> that says the inode tables are written OK; then it goes to a step
> "Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information" and appears
> to sit idle for about three minutes prior to rebooting the box. I've
> tried skipping to one of the later steps -- Mount a
> Previously-Initialized Partition -- and can choose from the menu which
> of the partitions I want to mount. I do so and am told I need to mount a
> root partition, so I say OK and receive this error: "Mount Failed:
> Invalid Argument".
To see what is happening during the partition initialization, try
it manually. After booting and configuring the keyboard, switch
to console 2 (Opt-F2 or Cmd-F2). At the prompt, do
mke2fs -v /dev/hda4
(if 4 is the one you want to initialize). It should give you some
information about what's happening, if it's a segfault or what.
For the swap partition, try
mkswap /dev/hda5
> One thing that may be important but I'm not sure is that /dev/hda2 and
> /dev/hda3 are both drivers of some sort. I've attempted deleting them as
> the box will not have multiple OSes installed, but this results in an
> error something like: "Sorry: can't delete a driver partition (yet!)".
Driver partitions won't hurt anything. Don't know why it's giving
that error message, though, maybe you have a partition map problem.
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"The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what
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under the bridge, and then they marched over it."
-- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003
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