Re: Installion: Uncorrectable Error
Doesn't it simplly says that the HD has bad sectors ?
>
> I am trying to install debian onto a partition on my second hard drive,
> I get finished installing, and making my boot floppy, by i get a lot of
> error messages,when I reboot to continue installion. There are so many
> messages after a while the computer just sits there, and doesnt do
> anything. I tried reinstalling probably 20+ times, and it is still
> doing this, I got further than that once, but there was another problem
> later on, in hardware, so was going to reinstall, and it is screwed up
> again, the error message that I get is:
>
> hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error}
> hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 {UnCorrectable Error}, CHS=40/3/25
> sector=34548
> end_request: I/O Error, dev 03:42, sector 34548
>
> Any info on this message would really help, I get so many of them, they
> just fill up the whole screen. Even the time I got past them, I still
> had them, just not as many. If it matters, I have a Pentium 100mhz 24
> RAM Linux Partition=225 megs and I am installing from a CD, which I
> purchased at linuxcentral.com
>
> Kenneth L. Smart
> Smart2@inreach.com
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