On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Chris Mathey wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
>>
>> I downloaded and am installing Ubuntu 6.07 LTS, going through manual
>> partitioning. Whenever it tries to write an ext3 filesystem, it fails.
>> Next time I run the install, that partition gets an ext2 filesystem, and
>> it succeeds. My hypothesis is that it fails writing the journal. Is
>> this an accurate hypothesis, and if so, any ideas about why it should be
>> so and do you forsee any showstoppers in my future?
>
> Is this a USB hard drive or solid state?
Regular Winchester. I wish I could afford a solid-state one of a decent
size...
> I had a similar issue with a USB hard drive in the past (I believe it was
> the super cheap USB case). I had to connect the drive to an IDE channel on
> my server to partition\format, popped it back in the USB case and it
> worked.
Hmm, that's an idea, though this isn't a cheapo case -- I spaecifically got
one that wasn't limited to 350G (?) and had a fan (on the bottom).
I'm going to try a different distribution, in hopes that its formatter
works. Also, I tried to put LILO on /dev/hda so maybe I could boot that
way, but installation failed with
raid_init: stat(/dev/hda)
Which I don't get, as /dev/hda exists within LILO's chroot, and isn't part
of a RAID. LILO is version 22.7 ; on the latest System Rescue CD it's the
same version. Anyone got a tutorial in GRUB?
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