On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 10:56 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Pedro Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1. Initialization of large partitions fails at one point or another. d-i > > just freezes when it gets to about 88% of a 180 GB ext3 partition. The > > hard drive actually remains *very* busy but the installer progress bar > > stops moving forward. No way around this, just reboot the machine. > > How long did you wait? > Over 3 hours in my wildest attempt to get this going! In fact I was afraid the hard drive was going to fail. I tried several times to initialize a large partition. Nope, that doesn't work.
This morning I tried again, from scratch. On my first attempt the installer gets to 32% --> Reboot --> second attempt gets me to 68% --> reboot --> third attempt, 63%. I waited 15 minutes in each case. I think I got to 88% when I was trying a smaller partition, like 140 GB. 80 GB seems not to be a problem. But the installer freezes in the first machine after it finishes with the partitions. > mke2fs will write a lot of data to the disk and at the beginning it > all goes into cache (and jumps right up to 88% ?) and then stalls when > the cache is full and the disk has to actualy write it. > > Check the 3th + 4th console for kernel errors too. > No errors in the consoles. 3th console ... File descriptor 6 left open No volume groups found Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while ... 4th console ... main-menu[1232]: DBUG: virtual package harddrive-detection That's it. -- Pedro > MfG > Goswin > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
