"The filesystem was not created" during installation
Hardware:
MSI K7T266 Pro2-A motherboard w/ AMD Athlon XP 1200
Maxtor 40 GB hard drive
Software:
Debian Woody 3.0 r1
The motherboard is new (never used, even though it's an older model),
recently purchased on Ebay. The hard drive is not new, but until last
week I was using it in a different Debian system that ran for around
2.5 years with no problems (originally Potato, upgraded to Woody).
I can boot off the first install CD and create partitions with no
problem. The swap partition (hda4, 2 GB) initializes fine, as does hda1
(5 GB). When initializing the remaining partitions (hda2, 10 GB, and
hda3, 23 GB), the process stops and returns a "The filesystem was not
created" error. The installation then hangs. I tried using both ext2
and ext3 with the same results. This happens no matter which partition
I try to initialize, whether or not I do a bad block scan, and also
when I tried to create one big partition as an experiment.
In my troubleshooting efforts I booted off a recent Knoppix CD. Once
booted up, I ran mkfs, which ran fine on hda1 but segfaulted and hung
the system on hda2. A Windows 2000 blue screened during installation.
I'm guessing the problem might be with the IDE controller on this
motherboard, but I haven't been able to find anything on the web about
it. The board has a built in Promise IDE RAID controller, which is
disabled in the BIOS (although I tried it both ways). S.M.A.R.T. is
also disabled. Unfortunately, I don't have another hard drive or
motherboard to try, so I'm looking for a little insight into the
problem before I spend money on new hardware that may not fix the
problem.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Kenn
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