[SLE] 6.1 install process corrupting disk..?
Using the 6.1 Boot disk off the 6.1 CD Disc 1 since the boot disk that I got was hanging all the time. Went to configure my hard drive (/dev/hdb since /dev/hda is an LS-120 drive) and it reported that /dev/hdb was 2193 cylinders which was the same amount as my /dev/hdc drive (18gig drive). Instead I had already filled up the drive with a FAT32 parition that said it went to 524 cylinders (which now that I think about it, is probably wrong since it's a 4gig drive). It would let me say /dev/hdb could go to 2193 cylinders, but then it would report it being 18+gigs, like my other drive. (4gig is a Seagate slave on IDE0, and 18gig IBM is a Master on IDE1). Anyway, I made two primary paritions along with a swap and there's a 500meg DOS partition that already exists on that drive for booting. Made a /boot at 20megs, swap 120megs, and the rest to cylinder 524 (3+gigs) being another primary partition. Formatted and installed fine but when I went to boot the parition fsck came up and said the disk was corrupt and it was finding stuff endlessly, rebooted and would halt on booting, ran setup again and now /dev/hdb does NOT show up as device. Ran repair, and tried to mount /dev/hdb and it said no such device! wtf!?!?! Is there a bug in reporting cylinders in the 6.1 boot disk? Should I grab something else? I didn't spend the time last night, but I'm considering doing the partitions with Partition Magic and going from there to see if it's any smoother. -------------------------- Edward Baichtal edwardb@AirLink.com http://www.airlink.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Finally got the software installed OK on the 4gig IDE drive. Figured out it's 523 cylinders not 524. BUT, my hard drive is still being "auto-detected" incorrectly when booting. LILO never worked correctly (since I'm Win2K + DOS already) so now I'm using loadlin and getting further. My hard drive is being detected as CHS (?) with 2193 cylinders and 255 heads (still like my 18gig IDE drive). So at the part when it gets to figuring out the hard drives, it figures out hdc ok, but then it stops on hdb saying: INVALID GEOMETRY: 255 Physical Heads? What do I do? What can I manually set where? I can come up fine with a boot disk and then booting the rescue disk off the CD, and then mounting /dev/hdb and looking at it so I can change config. files that way... Any help is much appreciated! -------------------------- Edward Baichtal edwardb@AirLink.com http://www.airlink.com
-----Original Message----- From: Edward Baichtal [mailto:edwardb@AirLink.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 11:34 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] 6.1 install process corrupting disk..?
Using the 6.1 Boot disk off the 6.1 CD Disc 1 since the boot disk that I got was hanging all the time. Went to configure my hard drive (/dev/hdb since /dev/hda is an LS-120 drive) and it reported that /dev/hdb was 2193 cylinders which was the same amount as my /dev/hdc drive (18gig drive). Instead I had already filled up the drive with a FAT32 parition that said it went to 524 cylinders (which now that I think about it, is probably wrong since it's a 4gig drive). It would let me say /dev/hdb could go to 2193 cylinders, but then it would report it being 18+gigs, like my other drive. (4gig is a Seagate slave on IDE0, and 18gig IBM is a Master on IDE1).
Anyway, I made two primary paritions along with a swap and there's a 500meg DOS partition that already exists on that drive for booting. Made a /boot at 20megs, swap 120megs, and the rest to cylinder 524 (3+gigs) being another primary partition. Formatted and installed fine but when I went to boot the parition fsck came up and said the disk was corrupt and it was finding stuff endlessly, rebooted and would halt on booting, ran setup again and now /dev/hdb does NOT show up as device. Ran repair, and tried to mount /dev/hdb and it said no such device! wtf!?!?!
Is there a bug in reporting cylinders in the 6.1 boot disk? Should I grab something else? I didn't spend the time last night, but I'm considering doing the partitions with Partition Magic and going from there to see if it's any smoother.
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I have a Seagate 4gig, and then an IBM 18gig UDMA66. (I'm not using the ATA66 controller, it is enabled, but both drives are running off the ATA33 controllers.) When installing SuSE 6.1 it kept detecting my 4gig drive with the hd parameters of my 18gig. Showing 2193 cylinders in LBA mode, when it is supposed to be 523 cylinders. I chose the correct cylinders, and installed Linux OK, and can get to it via a Rescue disk boot, but when booting normally, it complains about the drive geometry on the first drive and says "255 Physical heads?" and then dies. It claims it's a non-IDE drive and then also complains it has no driver for it. I've set the parameters manually on boot using hdb=cyls,heads,sectors (the ones I got from the BIOS in LBA mode)and nothing changes. Is this because of the UDMA66 controller that is running in the system (but that I'm not using)? Do I need to upgrade the kernel or use 6.2 instead? Is this maybe because the kernel doesn't know how to handle the second drive so it screws up the first drive instead? Let me know... -------------------------- Edward Baichtal edwardb@AirLink.com http://www.airlink.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Is it as easy as putting in the CD and running SuSE and updating stuff, or do I have to remove partitions, re-add them and start fresh? Any papers written up on switching distros like this? -------------------------- Edward Baichtal edwardb@AirLink.com http://www.airlink.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Edward Baichtal
Is it as easy as putting in the CD and running SuSE and updating stuff,
No, not as easy as that.
or do I have to remove partitions, re-add them and start fresh? Any papers written up on switching distros like this?
But not as hard as that either. When you install SuSE, you can reuse the partitions of RedHat. First you tell Yast to read the fstab then simply choose to format the partitions. This way you have the same partition setup as in redhat. If you had a /home partition, you should not format that. Just create users with the same name as in RedHat, and all the personalized configurations for programs will be kept. You might also try to keep /usr/local if that is a partition. Good luck. Regards Ole -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Edward Baichtal wrote:
Is it as easy as putting in the CD and running SuSE and updating stuff, or do I have to remove partitions, re-add them and start fresh? Any papers written up on switching distros like this?
Keep your /home directories saved off and copy them back in after you make the os switch. Also remember any special files that you have accumulated. Usually you can setup a spare harddrive or separate ext2 partition and copy them off. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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