Re: [SLUG] sata drive problems - slow load

2008-11-21 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 09:31 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: > Reinstalling the kernel helped a lot but not the whole solution, thanks. > Now it gave me errors about invalid ext3 superblocks. Typing exit > allowed it to boot as normal. I have to figure out how to modify the > start delay/ All OK now,

Re: [SLUG] sata drive problems - slow load

2008-11-21 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 00:29 +1100, Michael Chesterton wrote: > On 21/11/2008, at 12:08 AM, Ken Foskey wrote: > > > > > I installed a very large harddrive today and now everytime I boot I am > > dropping to a kernel prompt. > > > > I have figured out that I need to > >modprobe sata_via > >e

Re: [SLUG] sata drive problems - slow load

2008-11-20 Thread Ben Donohue
Have you tried making a small partition... eg 50GB and letting the rest just spin. See if it is the size of the partition or the size of the disk? Ben Jake Anderson wrote: Ken Foskey wrote: I installed a very large harddrive today and now everytime I boot I am dropping to a kernel prompt. I h

Re: [SLUG] sata drive problems - slow load

2008-11-20 Thread Jake Anderson
Ken Foskey wrote: I installed a very large harddrive today and now everytime I boot I am dropping to a kernel prompt. I have figured out that I need to modprobe sata_via exit It all boots OK but the modprobe takes a huge amount of time. Is there a step that I have not done in setting

Re: [SLUG] sata drive problems - slow load

2008-11-20 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 21/11/2008, at 12:08 AM, Ken Foskey wrote: I installed a very large harddrive today and now everytime I boot I am dropping to a kernel prompt. I have figured out that I need to modprobe sata_via exit It all boots OK but the modprobe takes a huge amount of time. Is there a step that

[SLUG] sata drive problems - slow load

2008-11-20 Thread Ken Foskey
I installed a very large harddrive today and now everytime I boot I am dropping to a kernel prompt. I have figured out that I need to modprobe sata_via exit It all boots OK but the modprobe takes a huge amount of time. Is there a step that I have not done in setting this up? Is there a