Todd,
Again, many thanks for your response.
Tried what you suggested, (unhappy) results below.
On Saturday 10 August 2002 12:19, Todd Lyons Wrote Thusly:
> Nice problem report. I wish everybody posted with the level of detail
> that you have.
Thank you - when you're lost it's not clear what's useful
information and what's not.
> David Oberbeck wrote on Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 11:56:23AM -0600 :
> > linux ide=nodma devfs=nomount
>
> I've never had to use ide=nodma, however, I didn't have any ide devices
> either.
Without the ide=nodma stanza the installer never gets to the second
stage (it's booting from an IDE CD-ROM).
Did as you suggested. The sizes / mount points where entered with
the Gui tool, and displayed in fdisk (with an added column as to what
the mount points are for the partition):
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System (mount point)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 15 61184 83 Linux ( dummy )
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 * 16 27 48960 83 Linux ( /boot )
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 * 28 528 2044080 82 Linux Swap ( swap )
/dev/cciss/c0d0p4 * 529 4357 15622320 5 Extended ( N/A )
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 * 529 4357 15622304 83 Linux ( / )
Sadly: same error, same place when formatting the swap partition.
Any other suggestions?
> > For your information, here is the partition table printout from
> > fdisk, as read out by 'fdisk /dev/cciss/c0d0' then 'p':
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 15 61184 83 Linux
> > /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 * 16 4357 17715360 5 Extended
> > /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 * 16 26 44864 83 Linux
> > /dev/cciss/c0d0p6 * 27 1531 6140384 83 Linux
> > /dev/cciss/c0d0p7 * 1532 1781 1019984 83 Linux
> > /dev/cciss/c0d0p8 * 1782 2031 1019984 83 Linux
> > /dev/cciss/c0d0p9 * 2032 3850 7421504 83 Linux
> > /dev/cciss/c0d0p10 * 3851 4357 2068544 82 Linux swap
>
> Couple of things to note:
> 1) Move the swap to the beginning of the drive. Might make a
> difference.
> 2) This applies to only some drivers, I do not know if the Compaq RAID
> driver is one of them. Some drivers are limited to 7 partitions. So
> make the first three partitions primary (1 2 and 3). 4 will be an
> extended partition. Then you have room for three more (5 6 and 7). One
> of those needs to be swap.
>
> Blue skies... Todd
TIA,
David
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