Re: 8.1 Install - Partitioning problems

Hi

Yes I am in the same boat!

I can install the system fine and that is OK as long as you don't need to reboot!It asll loads and runs fine. If you look at the filesystem it even says its got partitions on both my disks.

Aboot throws a major wobbler saying it can't load the filesystem and that partition 2 is invalid?

I have two disks on my machine and it won't partition the first one.

I set up the second with the boot file in it.

I set the start at cylinder 3 on both disks. 

If I go to the SRM prompt and try to boot the second disk from there it goes into kernel panic.

I think the bug with partitioning needs fixing guys!

John



On Fri, 23 May 2003 13:25:30 -0500
"Stuart Powell" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hmmm, this is starting to get really frustrating.
> 
> I started out fresh this morning, and once the setup routine started, I
> went to the second console screen, and formatted all three partitions. 
> One is swap, one reiser and one ext2.  All the formats went fine.  Then
> I did another reboot to be on the safe side (ftp.leo.org is waaaaay
> faster than the gwdg one, by the way) and when it comes to setting up
> the partitions, I expected to see them in the list in Custom
> Partitioning.  All I see is the root device of the disk itself.  If I go
> to the second console screen and run fdisk, the partitions are, of
> course, still there.  Telling setup to reread the partition table
> doesn't seem to help.
> 
> If I can't tell setup where to mount the partitions, how can I proceed
> ?  Why can I not see the partitions I know are there from within the
> setup routine ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Stuart.
> 
> >>> "Thompson, James M." <[email protected]> 05/22/03
> 03:45PM >>>
> Unfortunately, yes, you will probably have to reboot to re-read your
> partition table.
> 
> Bummer, I know (I have two multia's...with no SCSI CDRom I have to
> install
> via FTP.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Powell [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 3:38 PM
> To: [email protected] 
> Subject: RE: [suse-axp] 8.1 Install - Partitioning problems
> 
> 
> Hello, James.
> 
> Firstly, I may have caused some crossed wires.  I'm not trying to
> format from fdisk, I was just using fdisk to see if the partitons were
> created.  I was choosing the fs type from within the drive setup
> portion
> of Installation Settings, and reiser doesn't show up.
> 
> At one point, fdisk did tell me something to the effect of "Kernel is
> using old partition table, you'll need to reboot."  At this point, I'm
> thinking I should probably reboot, but it took so long to copy the
> stuff
> from FTP to the ramdisk earlier that I was hoping to not have to go
> through that again.  But I will if I have to.
> 
> By the way, I also got the following error after following your
> advice:
> 
> / # mkreiserfs /dev/rd/c0d0p4
> mkreiserfs 3.6.2 (2002)
> 
> count_blocks: open failed (no such device or address)
> 
> 
> Aborted
> / #
> 
> So, for some reason (maybe the fact I haven't rebooted yet) I can't
> format my partitions.
> 
> Stuart.
> 
> >>> "Thompson, James M." <[email protected]> 05/22/03
> 03:22PM >>>
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Powell [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 3:05 PM
> To: [email protected] 
> Subject: [suse-axp] 8.1 Install - Partitioning problems
> 
> 
> Hello, everyone.
> 
> If you've been following along this morning you'll know I'm trying to
> get an old AlphaServer 1000 running with SuSE 8.1.  With a little help
> I
> have managed to get it to boot up from the CD, and connect to the FTP
> server.  It has got to the point where I am sorting out the
> installation
> settings.  Everything looks good, but when I proceed past this point,
> it
> seems unable to format the partitions.
> 
> I have set the partitions up thus:
> 
> /boot - 100MB (I know it doesn't NEED to be this big)
> swap - 384MB (RAM is 192MB)
> / - everything else, approx. 11GB
> 
> If I move over to a second console prompt and launch fdisk, it shows
> the partitions are there.  Does anyone know why I can't format them ? 
> I
> am trying to use ext2 for /boot and ext3 for / since reiser is not an
> option in the list of fs types.
> 
> Thanks,
> Stuart.
> --------------------------
> 
> What did you mean by "list of fs types"?  Did you mean the list in
> fdisk?
> If so, that is not where you format for Reiserfs...
> 
> Go ahead and create the partition as type Linux (82 iirc), and after
> writing
> the partition table, execute "mkreiserfs /dev/partition" from the
> command
> line.
> 
> Mitch
> 


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