Can't install via ftp
During an update the system froze and I can no longer log into the system. I am trying to reinstall by way of ftp. After it verifies the ftp site and starts probing hardware it says no harddrives found. I backed out and checked the kernel logs and it shows both drives. hda is a 40g maxtor, hdb is a 120g western dig. I have never had this happen before. I am using the 9.0 pro install cd to start the install system . The disks are not fit for install use any more. Any ideas? Jim
The disks are not fit for install use any more.
Any ideas?
Jim
Why not make yourself a new set of disks for 10.0? The iso's are available for free at opensuse.org. You can crush them up into a bootable dvd too. Or does it _have_to be 9.0? Steve.
steve wrote:
The disks are not fit for install use any more.
Any ideas?
Jim
Why not make yourself a new set of disks for 10.0? The iso's are available for free at opensuse.org. You can crush them up into a bootable dvd too. Or does it _have_to be 9.0? Steve.
I wish I could but my burner is broke. Had to put an old cdrom in and money is needed else where now. so no getting one at the moment. It sucks having to use MS. Jim
On Sunday 25 September 2005 18:19, James Smullins wrote:
steve wrote:
The disks are not fit for install use any more.
Any ideas?
Jim
Why not make yourself a new set of disks for 10.0? The iso's are available for free at opensuse.org. You can crush them up into a bootable dvd too. Or does it _have_to be 9.0? Steve.
I wish I could but my burner is broke. Had to put an old cdrom in and money is needed else where now. so no getting one at the moment. It sucks having to use MS.
Jim
Where are you?
I am running SUSE LINUX 9.1. My system boots from an EIDE drive and has been working for quite some time. I just bought an Adaptec 39160 controller to run a database from the machine. When I installed the controller in the machine, it installed great, with no problems. When I mount a drive, a Fujitsu Enterprise MAN3367MC 36.7 GB Hard Drive 10K and partitioned it, everything worked until I rebooted the machine. I mount partition as /mooky. An error scrolls past the display to fast for me to read, how can you scroll up to see the message, I've looked in /var/logs and couldn't find the message? When the boot is complete I get a message that the root volume is mounted read only, i see a couple of messages that say it can't open files. The system sits with a message how to mount / as rw. If while booting I hit Ctrl-c while the system is booting I get the system to boot and the drive works well. If I comment out the line in /etc/fstab for the scsi device then the systems boots. Has anyone experienced anything like this before, or have a suggestion to get the system to boot properly. Thanks in advance Ray Madigan
On Sunday 25 September 2005 04:15 pm, Ray Madigan wrote:
If while booting I hit Ctrl-c while the system is booting I get the system to boot and the drive works well. If I comment out the line in /etc/fstab for the scsi device then the systems boots. Has anyone experienced anything like this before, or have a suggestion to get the system to boot properly.
I suspect your problem is that adding in the new drive has either: 1) upset the order of the partitions and/or drives but this should only be true if you had other /dev/sdx drives on the system. 2) More likely, a partition on the new drive failed a check on trying to mount so the system is letting you sort things out. Best thing to do is to comment out the /etc/fstab entries for the new drive and boot. Then look around and then try to mount those partitions manually and look for errors. Also look at how the new drive is 'seen' by the system and include some information in your next email. There's not really enough to go on. But situations like you are in are pretty common when adding in new drives/controllers unless careful planning is done ahead of time.
Can you publish your /etc/fstab file. It will help in the diagnose of the problem. Ray Madigan wrote:
I am running SUSE LINUX 9.1. My system boots from an EIDE drive and has been working for quite some time. I just bought an Adaptec 39160 controller to run a database from the machine. When I installed the controller in the machine, it installed great, with no problems.
When I mount a drive, a Fujitsu Enterprise MAN3367MC 36.7 GB Hard Drive 10K and partitioned it, everything worked until I rebooted the machine. I mount partition as /mooky. An error scrolls past the display to fast for me to read, how can you scroll up to see the message, I've looked in /var/logs and couldn't find the message?
When the boot is complete I get a message that the root volume is mounted read only, i see a couple of messages that say it can't open files. The system sits with a message how to mount / as rw.
If while booting I hit Ctrl-c while the system is booting I get the system to boot and the drive works well. If I comment out the line in /etc/fstab for the scsi device then the systems boots. Has anyone experienced anything like this before, or have a suggestion to get the system to boot properly.
Thanks in advance Ray Madigan
-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
Ray Madigan wrote:
I am running SUSE LINUX 9.1. My system boots from an EIDE drive and has been working for quite some time. I just bought an Adaptec 39160 controller to run a database from the machine. When I installed the controller in the machine, it installed great, with no problems.
When I mount a drive, a Fujitsu Enterprise MAN3367MC 36.7 GB Hard Drive 10K and partitioned it, everything worked until I rebooted the machine. I mount partition as /mooky. An error scrolls past the display to fast for me to read, how can you scroll up to see the message, I've looked in /var/logs and couldn't find the message?
Hot key combo to scroll up during boot: Shift+PageUp Perhaps you need a new initrd (see mkinitrd) with the module for the SCSI controller in it. During the boot process the module for the SCSI controller needs to be in ram disk for the kernel to access the SCSI disk HDD and mount the partition(s). -- Arun Khan (knura at yahoo dot com) Success defies gravity - it goes straight to the head. Gravity take over when the head becomes heavy with Success!
James Smullins wrote:
During an update the system froze and I can no longer log into the system. I am trying to reinstall by way of ftp. After it verifies the ftp site and starts probing hardware it says no harddrives found.
I got exectly this report when I tried to use a set of SuSE v8.2 boot floppies (ie a v2.4 kernel) to install V9.1 via FTP. Don't ask why. I was just curious. Using the correct boot disks, I have no problems. It's easy to make new boot floppies. Go to the 'boot' directory on the install CD. Use 'dd if=<disk image> of=/dev/fd0' for each of the disks that you need. Ken Hough I
backed out and checked the kernel logs and it shows both drives. hda is a 40g maxtor, hdb is a 120g western dig. I have never had this happen before. I am using the 9.0 pro install cd to start the install system . The disks are not fit for install use any more.
Any ideas?
Jim
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