Re: Is there a known problem with formatting ext3 partitions on AMD-64

2005-11-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Goodenough [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: Is there a known problem with formatting ext3 partitions on AMD-64

2005-11-25 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 25 November 2005 12:45, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: David Goodenough [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

RE: Is there a known problem with formatting ext3 partitions on AMD-64

2005-11-24 Thread Mark Coetser
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

Re: Is there a known problem with formatting ext3 partitions on AMD-64

2005-11-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:41:31PM +, David Goodenough wrote: 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. Is there anything in the kernel log (from dmesg) about why? The manual mount