I decided to upgrade my Qube2 yesterday. I added a sata card, 1TB sata drive and connected a 1GB compact flash card using a CF-IDE adapter. I then started the Debian install, using net boot and nfs. The installer didn't recognize the sata drive, so I installed the entire system on the 1GB cf card. When I rebooted, the kernel recognized the sata drive and the system booted perfectly.
Then, using a different computer, I moved the root directory from the cf card to the sata drive and modified fstab accordingly. I then created a single boot partition on a second cf card which is 32MB and copied over the files in the boot directory. I then modified default.colo accordingly. Now my Qube won't boot. Here's what I get: 10.PCI Expansion Slot....................**EMPTY** 12.IDE Test................................PASS 13.Ethernet Test...........................PASS 16.RTC Test................................PASS BOOTLOADER ramcode: selected partition /dev/hda1 Decompressing done Executing bootloader kernel... Jump_to_Real_Kernel: disk error, trying BFD again BOOTLOADER ramcode: selected partition /dev/hdc1 Decompressing - done Executing bootloader kernel... Jump_to_Real_Kernel: disk error, trying BFD again get_root_dev: nr_boot_failures 0x00000002 exceeds maxtries 0x00000002 for boot_index 0x00000000 *** halting *** Any thoughts? I tried a dozen or so different combinations of using /dev/sda1 or /dev/hda1 in default.colo and fstab, creating/removing a swap partition and shrinking the boot partition all resulting in the error above. -Chris On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Glyn Astill <[email protected]> wrote: > --- On Mon, 22/2/10, Chris Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Chris Thomas <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: large disks in Cobalt Qube 2 >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Monday, 22 February, 2010, 17:13 >> I'm thinking about buying a 1-2 TB >> SATA drive and installing it into >> the Qube 2 via a SATA -> PATA adapter. I'll use a CF >> card for the boot >> partition. Are there any obvious reasons why this >> setup wouldn't >> work? >> > > I think it'd work, but it might be a bit painful storing so much data on such > a slow device. > > My qube2 used to be a fileserver too, it was okay, but these days it just > serves some webpages and my emails whilst the files are now on a newer > machine with a raid card. > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
