Help?
I'm trying to do a fresh 'expert' install. I'm installing from the cooker
tree rsynched as of yesterday morning, located on my 2nd hard disk and using
'hd.img' from 9/1/00 as my boot disk. After 'auto allocating' the
partitions for the first hard disk, I 'delete' the last partition, /home, so
I can resize /usr larger. I hit 'resize' on the /usr partition and resize it
from about 2GB to about 6GB and hit 'OK'. I get the watch icon - with the
UI still functional - and these messages logged to one of the consoles:
starting step 'doPartitionDisks'
getFile XXX () relGetFile /XXX
local getFile /tmp/rhimage//XXX
no scsi devices are available
found a empty partition table on /dev/hda at sector 0
warning: bad magic number at /usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm
line 31.
found a dos partition table on /dev/hdc at sector 0
partitioning wizard log:
>>wizlog>>Not enough free space to allocate new partition
>>wizlog>>there is no FAT partitions to resize or use as loopback (or not
enough space left)
I've tried variations on this (like clearing everything, committing that to
the partition table, and trying to allocate all the partitions from
scratch),
but I come up with the same results. I thought maybe the partition table
was corrupt or something so I ran 'fdisk' from the # prompt on one of the
consoles. It reported there were 7 partitions on drive 1 - a lot more than
diskdrake was showing. I deleted all the partitions via fdisk, committed
this to disk, started the install again from a reboot, and still got the
same error. And lastly, which the messages above show, I used a low-level
disk utility provided by the drive manufacturer to write 0's to all drives
sectors (well, I quit it after it did the first tenth of the disk) so as to
wipe out all trace of the partitition table and MBR. I still get the same
error. Finally, as a last resort, I updated the BIOS of my motherboard, an
ABIT BP6, to the latest beta bios dated 8/21/00. And the error is still
there.
The hard disk is a Western Digital 30GB, autoconfigured under the
motherboard BIOS to use LBA translation.
The install log reports the disk as:
hda WDC WD307AA 29333MB w/2048 Cache CHS=3739/255/63
And this behavior has been around for at least 10 days as I've tried this
every so often with the latest Cooker.
Thanks.
Scott Langley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.scottlangley.com
