I decided the cf card wasn't worth the trouble and went with a 2.5in hard drive. It now works as expected. Here's a photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8371...@n07/4518153166/in/set-72157623722014355/ -Chris On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Chris Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]
