Subject: Re: device not mounted
From: Ed Jaeger (ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com)
Date: Wed Apr 19 2000 - 22:56:45 MDT
After you use pdisk you have to quit the installer, reboot the system,
restart the installer, and skip partitioning for the partition table to
be written correctly. Did you do this? Also, do you _really_ want 1GB
of swap psace?
Phil Kirschner wrote:
>
> Hey all. I just tried to install CS1.2 on a 4 gig drive, and I wanted (for
> the first time ever) to actually partition up the drive. This caused
> problems, and I am watching it install now, but I had to get rid of all the
> partitions I made. I wanted to have (in this order):
>
> / -- 500MB
> /swap -- 1GB
> /usr -- 1GB
> /home -- 1300MB
> /var -- 500MB
>
> It let me do everything in pdisk, then I assigned the mountpoints. When it
> went to start installing everything though, it said there was a mount point
> error, and that the device was not configured.
>
> Now that I just did an install onto that same drive, using only a / and
> /swap partition, I thought it would work. (I also left 2 GB untouched on
> the drive this time.) When I just tried to boot into Linux, I get these
> errors:
>
> attempt to access beyone end of device
> 08:05: rw=0, want=3883031, limit=2097152
> dev 08:05 blksize1024 blocknr=3883030 sector=7766060 size=1024 count=1
> EXT-fs error (device(8,5)): ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode block -
> inode=970753, block=3993030
> .
> .
> .
> Activating swap partitions swapon: /dev/sda6: Invalid argument [FAILED]
> .
> .
> Checking root filesystem
> /dev/sda5: The filesystem size (according to superblock) is 4462143 blocks
> The physical size of the device is 2097152 blocks
> Either the superblock or the partition is likely to be corrupt!
> .
> .
> /dev/sda5: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
>
> Get the point? Does this mean I have a bad drive? Did I mess up something
> in pdisk?
>
> HELP ME! I WANT TO GET THIS INSTALL WORKING!
>
> -Phil
>
> --
>
> A lecture is a process where information is passed from the notebook of the
> lecturer to the notebook of the student without necessarily passing through
> the minds of either.
-- --- Ed Jaeger"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
-- John Barrymore
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