On 4/23/06, Tao Chen <nameistao at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ah, too late. I did an initial install (reserved two non-regular
> filesystems) but worse thing happened.
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> Install succeeded, but on first boot, grub went into command prompt
> directly instead of menu.
> Booted from network again into single user mode,
> 'format' reports repeated error when opens the boot disk:
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> WARNING: /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at if,2/ide at 0/cmdk at 0,0 (Disk0):
> Error for command 'read sector' Error Level: Fatal
> Requested Block 147862276, Error Block: 147862276
> Sense Key: ID not found
> Vendor 'Gen-ATA' error code: 0x5.
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> It stops at "exceeds maximum number of retries".
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> This is a SATA disk, has both svn_37 and Fedora 5 installed.
> I can still boot into Fedora by specifying kernel/initrd files in grub
> menu,
> but grub gives some errors (not recogizing filesystem type, cannot mount
> etc.) if I specify Solaris kernel and boot files.
>
> I doubt this is a real hard disk issue, but haven't been able to narrow
> down the problem.
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> I shall open a separate thread for this.
>
> Tao
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This is what I got from grub:
grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x000000bf.
grub> kernel /platform/multiboot kernel/unix -s
Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
Boot from network, in single user code, the fdisk output looks like this:
Partition Status Type Start End Length %
========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
1 Active Soalris2 1 4498 4498 50
2 Linux native 4499 5803 1305 14
3 Active Solaris2 5804 6064 261 3
4 EXT-DOS 6065 8995 2931 33
Why do I have two Active partitions?
So I chose set active partion to 1. The "Active" mark on 3 was turned off.
Still can't boot.
Now when I run format, no more disk errors but my "partition table" in
Partition 1 is reset: no existing filesystem defined!
I am going to install again.
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