I don't know if this helps but I saw this article several weeks ago and it looks good to me.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/14/1637208
William
--- Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
> 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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