I have done quite a few installations onto different hardware/storage devices and have only had one issue quite recently using an intel (megaraid) SATA controller and that was hardware related, I could see the logical raid 5 device as /dev/sda and I could partition it but when doing a mke2fs -j /dev/sda1 right at the end of creating the ext3 filesystem it would kernel panic.
Thank you, Mark Adrian Coetser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tux-edo.co.za, http://www.thummb.com cel: +27 76 527 8789 tel: +27 11 805 2076 fax: +27 11 805 2330 -----Original Message----- From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 November 2005 04:42 PM To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org Subject: Is there a known problem with formatting ext3 partitions on AMD-64 I have a machine I am trying to install Debian on. It is an AMD-64 and has a DPT RAID card. The disks appear on the I2O bus. The Debian installer recognises them (once I have told it to load the right driver), and partitions them, but there is a problem when it comes to formatting them for EXT-3. Either through the installer, or manually on VC2, the format seems to go OK, but when I come to mount it, mount complains of an invalid parameter. The manual mount command I tried was:- mount -t ext3 /dev/i2o/hda/part1 /target /target exists, as does the /dev/i2o/hda/part1. The I2O maintainer is a bit confused as to why the disk is not called /dev/i2o/hda1, but that appears to be a Debianism. I also tried putting a small IDE drive on this box, and then I tried to format it using the installer, and that hung at 100%. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]