Re: sarge problems with large disk (maybe)
Note: David A. Patterson , your mail gives an error.
To answer your question, I formatted under the debian installer.
The rest of the disk had NTFS partitions formatted under windows.
More data:
I got rid of grub Error 18 by "rearranging" the disks in BIOS ( see below
for more details ).
Now I have the long delay in early kernel code and the described hang
after the kernel starts.
Here are my partition layouts :
fdisk -l :
Disk /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End
Blocks Id System
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 * 1 382
3068383+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 383 1657
10241437+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 1658 8934
58452502+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 1658 2932
10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 2933 3607
5421906 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 3608 7475
31069678+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 7476 8691
9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 8692 8934
1951866 82 Linux swap
sfdisk -l :
Disk /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 19929 cylinders, 255 heads, 63
sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 * 0+ 381 382-
3068383+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 382 1656 1275
10241437+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 1657 8933 7277
58452502+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 0 - 0
0 0 Empty
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 1657+ 2931 1275-
10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 2932+ 3606 675-
5421906 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 3607+ 7474 3868-
31069678+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 7475+ 8690 1216-
9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 8691+ 8933 243-
1951866 82 Linux swap
sfdisk -d :
# partition table of /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
unit: sectors
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 : start= 63, size= 6136767,
Id= 7, bootable
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 : start= 6136830, size= 20482875,
Id= 7
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 : start= 26619705, size=116905005,
Id= f
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 : start= 0, size= 0,
Id= 0
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 : start= 26619768, size= 20482812,
Id= 7
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 : start= 47102643, size= 10843812,
Id= 7
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 : start= 57946518, size= 62139357,
Id= 7
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 : start=120085938, size= 19534977,
Id=83
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 : start=139620978, size= 3903732,
Id=82
BIOS disk "magic" I did :
The disk are on the on-board promis xx276 chip, capable of (software)
RAID, AKA MBFastTrak133.
First there were 3 disks :
- 20 GB Quantum as "1+0 Strip" ( fancy name for "single disk" mode )
- 60 GB IBM and 160 GB Maxtor in "1+1 Mirror" mode ( RAID 1 giving a 60
GB "virtual" disk )
Then I removed the Quantum and IBM.
The BIOS complained about the missing disk from the mirror, but allowed
boot ( I guess its called "degraded mode" ). In this mode windows boots
and linux ( booted from debian install cd1 ) sees the disk just fine.
Then I booted the sarge cd1 and did an installation ( created / and swap
partitions ). On the first boot, grub gives error 18.
I just now I figured out, why there was an error 18 !
The RAID device is 60 GB in size, while the linux partitions were above
this "limit" ! So grub could not load its stage 2.
That leaves the boot delay problem and the "cannot open dev/console".
Will do a fresh install to see if it is repeatable.
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