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Am I dreaming : PINCH!
- From: Doug McGarrett <dougmack@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:38:34 -0400
- Message-id: <200205010138.g411cmpH022220@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
OK, here goes: Old Pentium 166 machine, not able to boot from
CD. To make this worse, the machine is 100% SCSI. I found
out that you could make boot disks from the CD, including
module disks. I can get thru module disk 1, but module
disk 2 just hangs the machine. I don't want to call SuSE
because I want to also put the software on a different machine,
one that I will use much more frequently, as soon as I put
it on a LAN, ehich I haven't wired up yet. I will probably
need more help with that, but I don't know. Does anyone
have any suggestions?
At 15:10 04/30/2002 +0000, Uzo Kemdi Anyamele wrote:
>On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 09:51, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>> On Tuesday 30 April 2002 6:22 am, Uzo Kemdi Anyamele wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 22:47, W.D. McKinney wrote:
>> > > Man is this one nice version for SuSE! No problems at all to report.
>> > > Thanks so much for a job well done .
>> > >
>> > > /Dee
>> > >
>> > > Running Linux since Red Hat 2.0 and SuSE
>> > > since 5.0.
>> >
>> > Hey Dee and others,
>> >
>> > Cool Runnings, eh ? I second that.
>> >
>> > Just as curious, if you have multi partitions already across different
>> > drives.
>> >
>> > You see, I have 4 10k SCSI drives with ,I think, 7/8 partitions. All,
>> > bar /boot and /extra running REISERFS. And more importantly 2 swaps
>> > partitions also.
>> >
>> > So, during the upgrade, the system would baulk repeatedly, until I
>> > disabled one of the swap partitions.
>> >
>> > Can you comment on any ideosyncracies here, no matter how hidden ?
>> >
>> > Cheers
>>
>> I'm having much the same problems with a new install. I have an
all-SCSI
>> unit with two drives. The install runs fine but on re-boot I get an
'fsck
>> failed' message, and told to remount the root in RW mode and do the fsck
>> manually. Ok, but doing that doesn't solve the problem. Another
reboot and
>> its right back to the same problem.
>>
>> I was trying to make the root EXT3 and finally gave up on that since I
was
>> getting the fsck problem.
>>
>> I'm about ready to send 8.0 back.
>
> Please, no.... not yet !!
>
>The senerio you described, I encountered also. During install, did you
>at least try and read your active /etc/fstab file ? i.e if you, like me
>use the expert partitioning options ?
>
> I think that the default, during update or clean install is for the
>installer to want to format any disk in its way, but I've always refused
>it that pleasure , as I have several partitions going back in time that
>I've always kept and their data and files too.
>
> Just make the /boot default to ext2 and format that. Then try to match
>the others to what your original layout used to be. And make sure ,
>you've asked for no formating of your precious partitions.
>
> Better still, just post your /etc/fstab here, so we can take a look.
>
>Here's mine,
>
> /dev/sdb3 / reiserfs defaults 1 2
>/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
>/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
>/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
>devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
>/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
>/dev/sda2 /extra ext2 defaults 1 2
>/dev/sda3 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
>/dev/sdc2 /local reiserfs defaults 1 2
>/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
>/dev/pda /media/sparQ auto rw,auto,user,exec 0 0
>/dev/sdd1 /multimedia reiserfs defaults 1 2
>/dev/sda4 /opt reiserfs defaults 1 2
>proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
>usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
>/dev/sdb2 /usr reiserfs defaults 1 2
>/dev/sdb4 /var reiserfs defaults 1 2
>/dev/hdd4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0
>/dev/sdb1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
>/dev/sdc1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
>
>CHEERS
>
>--
> Kemdi
> IN_SuSE_d Since 5.2
>123792 of counter.li.org
> ICQ:112290572
>
>
>
>
>
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>
CD. To make this worse, the machine is 100% SCSI. I found
out that you could make boot disks from the CD, including
module disks. I can get thru module disk 1, but module
disk 2 just hangs the machine. I don't want to call SuSE
because I want to also put the software on a different machine,
one that I will use much more frequently, as soon as I put
it on a LAN, ehich I haven't wired up yet. I will probably
need more help with that, but I don't know. Does anyone
have any suggestions?
At 15:10 04/30/2002 +0000, Uzo Kemdi Anyamele wrote:
>On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 09:51, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>> On Tuesday 30 April 2002 6:22 am, Uzo Kemdi Anyamele wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 22:47, W.D. McKinney wrote:
>> > > Man is this one nice version for SuSE! No problems at all to report.
>> > > Thanks so much for a job well done .
>> > >
>> > > /Dee
>> > >
>> > > Running Linux since Red Hat 2.0 and SuSE
>> > > since 5.0.
>> >
>> > Hey Dee and others,
>> >
>> > Cool Runnings, eh ? I second that.
>> >
>> > Just as curious, if you have multi partitions already across different
>> > drives.
>> >
>> > You see, I have 4 10k SCSI drives with ,I think, 7/8 partitions. All,
>> > bar /boot and /extra running REISERFS. And more importantly 2 swaps
>> > partitions also.
>> >
>> > So, during the upgrade, the system would baulk repeatedly, until I
>> > disabled one of the swap partitions.
>> >
>> > Can you comment on any ideosyncracies here, no matter how hidden ?
>> >
>> > Cheers
>>
>> I'm having much the same problems with a new install. I have an
all-SCSI
>> unit with two drives. The install runs fine but on re-boot I get an
'fsck
>> failed' message, and told to remount the root in RW mode and do the fsck
>> manually. Ok, but doing that doesn't solve the problem. Another
reboot and
>> its right back to the same problem.
>>
>> I was trying to make the root EXT3 and finally gave up on that since I
was
>> getting the fsck problem.
>>
>> I'm about ready to send 8.0 back.
>
> Please, no.... not yet !!
>
>The senerio you described, I encountered also. During install, did you
>at least try and read your active /etc/fstab file ? i.e if you, like me
>use the expert partitioning options ?
>
> I think that the default, during update or clean install is for the
>installer to want to format any disk in its way, but I've always refused
>it that pleasure , as I have several partitions going back in time that
>I've always kept and their data and files too.
>
> Just make the /boot default to ext2 and format that. Then try to match
>the others to what your original layout used to be. And make sure ,
>you've asked for no formating of your precious partitions.
>
> Better still, just post your /etc/fstab here, so we can take a look.
>
>Here's mine,
>
> /dev/sdb3 / reiserfs defaults 1 2
>/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
>/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
>/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
>devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
>/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
>/dev/sda2 /extra ext2 defaults 1 2
>/dev/sda3 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
>/dev/sdc2 /local reiserfs defaults 1 2
>/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
>/dev/pda /media/sparQ auto rw,auto,user,exec 0 0
>/dev/sdd1 /multimedia reiserfs defaults 1 2
>/dev/sda4 /opt reiserfs defaults 1 2
>proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
>usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
>/dev/sdb2 /usr reiserfs defaults 1 2
>/dev/sdb4 /var reiserfs defaults 1 2
>/dev/hdd4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0
>/dev/sdb1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
>/dev/sdc1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
>
>CHEERS
>
>--
> Kemdi
> IN_SuSE_d Since 5.2
>123792 of counter.li.org
> ICQ:112290572
>
>
>
>
>
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