Re: SS20 SUSE installation problems

Dear Brad,

Thanks for the advice, too many years of unix led to trying to use the
mkfs command.

I tried mke2fs -c /dev......

This did not complete on one of the partitions, it hangs during the
check for bad blocks.  This suggests a hardware problem.

regards

Philip Griffiths


Brad Mattick wrote:
> 
> Hmm. I can see a couple of things to check.
> 
> When do you run fdisk? You have to run it right away for it to work properly
> before yast gets a lock on the disk. I ran it during language/time zone
> selection.
> 
> Can you manually format the partitions that you make? Run mke2fs /dev/sda1
> for example and see if you succeed where yast fails. If so, then use expert
> mode and don't format.
> 
> You may have to manually mount the partitions as well. Manually going
> through everything (short of installing packages) first is what made things
> go for me.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Brad
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Philip Griffiths
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 2:59 AM
> To: Brad Mattick
> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] SS20 SUSE installation problems
> 
> Brad Mattick wrote:
> >
> > Hi Phillip,
> >
> > A little late and a little tipsy here at 3 AM, but here's what works for
> me
> > on my SS20.
> >
> > 1. Start the suse iso boot process
> > 2. manually switch terminals (alt F2 or 3 or 4)
> > 3. Manually fdisk, being certain to create a blank sun image. If you've
> got
> > partioning correct everything works fine.
> > 4. continue install process
> 
> Hello Brad,
> 
> Yes, done all that, machine still hangs at the formating stage.
> 
> Set up the machine yesterday and it is still sitting at YAST2 stage 6
> with the bar chart at 1% and Formatting /dev/sda4 as /.
> 
> dfisk'ed the machine so that
> 
> /dev/sda1 - /boot
> /dev/sda2 - swap
> /dev/sda3 - whole disk
> /dev/sda4 - /
> 
> /dev/sdb1 - /home - 1Gb disk
> /dev/sdb3 - whole disk
> 
> I then jump back using Alt-7 and have been through both expert and
> automatic partitioning routes, but it still fails at stage 6.
> 
> regards
> 
> Philip Griffiths
> 
> --
> Dr Philip Griffiths,
> University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
> tel - +44 28 9036 8238; fax - +44 28 9036 8239
> [email protected]

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Dr Philip Griffiths,
University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
tel - +44 28 9036 8238; fax - +44 28 9036 8239
[email protected]