Re: Alpha 266 installation troubles

Jay Estabrook - Alpha Migration Tools - LINUX Project (jestabro@amt.tay1.dec.com)
Wed, 24 Jul 1996 13:50:55 -0400

> I was doing an NFS installation of RedHat 3.0.3 on a XL266, whose data are:
>
> Processor Revision 3
> System Revision 0x1
> Processor Speed 266.02 Mhz
> Phisical Memory 96Mb
>
> Extended Firmware Informations Version: 4.41 950830.1727
>
> NVRAM Environment Usage: 16% (506 of 3052 bytes)
>
> BIOS controlled video card (installed by me)
>
> Hard Disk: FUJITSU M2934S-512 0122 (installed by me)
>
> It seems capable in initializing swap partitions, but the installation stops
at
> packages installation because it's impossible to mount /dev/sda1 (not
> recognized as ext2 partition).
> It's impossible continue the installation.
> Fdisk gave me many errors (unaligned trap....) during HD partitioning.
> Were I did mistakes ?

Hmm, if that FUJITSU disk is extra big (> 2Gb), you might have some problems.

But did you reboot *after* partitioning the disk, before continuing with the
install? THIS IS OFTEN NECESSARY, AND ALWAYS A GOOD PRECAUTION!!!

Yes, I know it's a pain to have to go through the three floppies all over
again, but it seems the only safe way to ensure that the kernel knows the
new partition information.

--Jay++

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