Subject: Re: Can't seem to make ext2 filesystem on 7200
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 19:20:28 MST
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Mike Warwick wrote:
> (1) If I chose not to format the root partition, I get the error message
> "Mount failed: Invalid argument."
I just had this error re-installing, and the problem is that the kernel needed
to be rebooted to pick up the new partition map.
> (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.)
This could also be consistant with that problem.
Try rebooting and NOT altering your partition table.
-Hollis
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