DLloyd wrote: > So, two weeks after ordering it, the PC arrives. I assembled the > hardware a few days ago and have been trying to get Debian running ever > since....
This is where the mate who knows linux and works for beer comes in... > > Firstly, I stand corrected. The Intel ICH7R chipset does not provide > hardware raid 0, so I have been experimenting with the Debian software > raid instead. > > I now have three SATA drives installed, a spare 250 GB drive I had > laying around, plus the two 500 GB drives. > > I installed Debian from DVD and partitioned the disks as follows: > > First drive (250 GB) > > 50 GB / > 50 GB /boot > 50 GB /tmp > 50 GB /var > 50 GB /usr That's wasting a whole load of disk. It might also cause you problems because /boot has to be in the first x cylinders of the disk (I forget what value "x" is). I'd do something like: /boot 100MB swap 2GB / 10GB Then use the rest for whatever. > On the two 500 GB drives, I created two 1 GB swap partitions at the > beginning of each disk, and configured the rest as raid 0, and used > this for /home (this is where the rips will live). You've had all the "raid 0 is dangerous" advice already I presume? You'd be better (in my opinion) putting swap on the 250GB drive and creating a mirror (RAID1) with the 2 x 500Gb disks. > Now, when the system boots it sits there for a while "Begin: Waiting > for root file system...", and then displays an error message: > > Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline > or missing modules, devices: cat /proc modules ls /dev > ALERT! does not exist. Dropping to a shell! > > BusyBox v1.1.3 (debian 1:1.1.3-4) Built-in shell (ash) > Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. > /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off > > Any ideas please ? Sorry - don't know debian very well. CentOS/Fedora I could help you with. Good luck. R. _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
