Hello folks, I've recently encountered a very strange bug in Venus. I was trying to install as /home (total of hdb) during install...and it installed fine. (or so it seemed). But at bootup, it dies with a veritable waterfall of repeated weird errors. Reboot. Still the same. Then I thought, rats...my hdd is gone? Tried to use "server-default" install. It installs on hda as expected. hdb is left alone. Then, I try to fdisk hdb and that cascading weird error message thingie strikes again. After that, I can't even get a "du" or "df" without the same error messages. (only ctrl-c ends it and gives me the command line) Rebooting enables me to log on...but as soon as I try to do anything with hdb, it goes nuts again. So, I try a different tact. Removed all drives, installed the offending (Seagate ST32532A) drive as hda and cdrom drv as hdb. It boots the CD and upon trying to install, it gave me something about partition invalid or something. Or partition record invalid or something like that. Basically, it says I do not have a valid drive/partition to install. Hmm...okay, so maybe my disk is all messed up? Tried booting Win98's boot disk. Then, using (MS) fdisk /mbr, then (MS) fdisk to partition...then reboot with floppy and format c:/s. Success! No errors, no bad sectors, nothing. I thought..what the fsck?!? Tried to install Venus again on that seagate drive...but it STILL gave me the same error as above. No valid device to install. Then...I decided to try Festen (Mandrake 5.3) just to see if it's a Venus only bug...and what do you know? It installs without a hitch. I honestly have no idea what the problem is. The seagate drive has been performing without any problems whatsoever ever since I bought it 1 year ago. And I've used it with NT, Win98, Festen with no probs. Oh, I also tried installing FreeBSD 3.2 and it also works. I don't know if this problem exists for RedHat 6.0 (I don't have a copy) but I don't really care about Red Hat...it's Mandrake that I want to use. Strangely enough, Venus installs with no problems on the other drives I have. (a number of Seagate and Quantum drives of various denominations) For your info, the 'problem' hdd is: Seagate ST32532A LBA, UDMA 2, 2.5 gig. Now that I have Festen up and running on this drive, I'll try to install Venus on it... Regards, -- ----------------------------------------- Kuraiken - Python fanatic. ----------------------------------------- Python. Try it. It'll swallow you whole! -----------------------------------------
