According to Mike Monastero: While burning my CPU.
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> Thanks, Richard. I'll give you as much information as I can.
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> I boot the boot disk to install Red Hat 5.0 from CD-ROM to an unused 2
> gigs of space on my hard drive (I've used this boot disk once before to
> install Linux with no problems).
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> Red Hat 5.0 uses a graphical interface, so there's no command line to type
> something inadvertently.
> This interface holds your hand through the install process.
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> After I boot it:
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> It initializes the CD-ROM.
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> It runs a utility for partitioning and setting up the mount points you
> tell it to.
> The utility saves the partition table.
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> It formats the swap space partition, checking for bad blocks.
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> It formats the remaining partitions, checking for bad blocks.
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> It runs a utility for selecting the software packages you want to install.
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> At this point the Red Hat installation program has all the information it
> needs, so it begins the install.
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> I then see the following:
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> "making ext2 filesystem on /dev/hda<#>" (where <#> is one of the
> partitions I told it to make)
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> I get through four or five <#>'s before I finally get the "mount failed:
> invalid argument" error message.
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Very strange, it all seems to point to a disk problem, have you checked
that the cyls/heads etc, are correct, the fdisk section has a field showing
disk geometry, check that against thwe drive documentaion, possably your
BIOS has detected it incorrectly, this can and does happen with 'award'
bios'es.
Does the mount failed tell you which device is failing ???.
When i tryed to install 5.0 on my new ST34321A, 4103MB i noticed that my
BIOS had detected the disk wrongly, i then had the same sort or problem(s)
you are having.
I turned of the autodetect and enterd it manualy into the bios after that i
got over the problem.
Even fdisk formatted the disk seemingly as 4 gb, with the wrong settings,
but as soon as i tryed to create the filesystems the problems started.
This leads me to suspect you have a simalar problem.
Of couse i could be wrong.
Hope this helps.
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> That's all the information I get. Hope this helps.
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> Mike M.
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Regards Richard.
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