Subject: Can't seem to make ext2 filesystem on 7200
From: Mike Warwick (mwarwick@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 17:53:39 MST
I'm having trouble installing CS 1.2.1 on a 7200/75. I have a 500MB drive
with MacOS on it, and a new 4.0GB Seagade Barracuda which I will dedicate to
Linux. (The Barracuda works just fine if formatted and mounted as a Mac HFS
drive, so I don't think the drive or SCSI settings are likely causes for the
problem described below.)
I've created a 64MB swap partition and a root partition to fill the rest of
the drive, then backed out of the installer to the beginning and rebooted to
MacOS (as directed by posts to this list). When I proceed with the
installer after rebooting, my problems begin just after selecting packages
to install.
(1) If I chose not to format the root partition, I get the error message
"Mount failed: Invalid argument."
(2) If I chose to format the root partition, I get the message "Making ext2
filesystem on sdb6," and the installer appears to hang. (I let it run for
10 hours and it never completed.)
One time I switched to the Cmd+F4 console, which showed that it seemed to be
trying to work with the disk -- at least in the beginning -- as messages
kept going by for every two sectors of the drive reporting "SCSI I/O error
40000".
Does anyone have any suggestions that might help me at this point? Other
than the new Seagate hard drive, the 7200/75 was never modified from its
factory-installed devices.
Thanks in advance for any help!
--Mike Warwick
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