Re: [Cooker] Install problems in 8.0 (LBA prob?)
Anton Graham wrote: I tried installing 8.0 on a friend's 800Mhz Thunderbird box and ran into some problems with diskdrake. The first install attempt seemed to go well, I set up the partitions within driskdrake, but I got the dreaded LI on reboot. Several attempts to reinstall lilo gave the same results. I tried changing bootloaders to GRUB and got GRUB on the screen and no more. Looking at the partion tables with another utility (Rannish Partition Manager) showed a fairly scrambled partition table, though I was able to boot from floppy if the floppy had a kernel on it. Pre-generating the partition table with Rannish, diskdrake gave errors about being unable to read the partition table. I aborted the install at that point. It is interesting to note that the Luser was insistent on placing the Linux partitions in the last 4G of a 46G device, and so the boot loaders would have needed to operate in LBA mode. The diskdrake error is of more concern, however, as the text installer actually presented a proposed partition table and wanted to format the whole drive. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request I got everybody to pay up front...then I blew up their planet. Now why didn't I think of that? -- Post Bros. Comics Hello, Just a though, I have had problems with installing, and the problems were about the same, but I was not able to finnish the install. What I found out is I had two drives on the same cable, and one was UDMA 66 and the other was 33. For some reason this causes problems with the install, but not with operation once I managed to get in installed?? I removed the second drive and all installed well, then I adjusted the partions around after the install. Hope this helps!!
Re: [Cooker] Install problems in 8.0 (LBA prob?)
Anton Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Looking at the partion tables with another utility (Rannish Partition Manager) showed a fairly scrambled partition table, what is a fairly scrambled partition table? could you give it? [...] Pre-generating the partition table with Rannish, diskdrake gave errors about being unable to read the partition table. if you don't give the exact error message, nothing can be done about it ;pp [...] It is interesting to note that the Luser was insistent on placing the Luser? what's this beast? Linux partitions in the last 4G of a 46G device, and so the boot loaders would have needed to operate in LBA mode. of course. I don't know of any limit around 40G (afaik the next big one is 2TB) cu Pixel.
[Cooker] Install problems in 8.0 (LBA prob?)
I tried installing 8.0 on a friend's 800Mhz Thunderbird box and ran into some problems with diskdrake. The first install attempt seemed to go well, I set up the partitions within driskdrake, but I got the dreaded LI on reboot. Several attempts to reinstall lilo gave the same results. I tried changing bootloaders to GRUB and got GRUB on the screen and no more. Looking at the partion tables with another utility (Rannish Partition Manager) showed a fairly scrambled partition table, though I was able to boot from floppy if the floppy had a kernel on it. Pre-generating the partition table with Rannish, diskdrake gave errors about being unable to read the partition table. I aborted the install at that point. It is interesting to note that the Luser was insistent on placing the Linux partitions in the last 4G of a 46G device, and so the boot loaders would have needed to operate in LBA mode. The diskdrake error is of more concern, however, as the text installer actually presented a proposed partition table and wanted to format the whole drive. -- Anton GrahamGPG ID: 0x18F78541 [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA key available upon request I got everybody to pay up front...then I blew up their planet. Now why didn't I think of that? -- Post Bros. Comics
