Re: RedHat 6.1 installation reboots before writing partitions

[mgh520 yahoo com]

Thanks for the info Stuart and Leonard.  Do you know how I can ensure that my
boot partition is below 8 gig?  I have one 4 gig NTFS partition, but when I
create the boot partition, will it necessarily go right after the 4 gig
partition?

Leonard, you suggested trying a rescue disk.  I'm not sure what you mean by that
or what to do with it.

I happened to look at NTs disk administrator and I noticed that the partitions
were indeed created by the RedHat install, so I guess it's dying right after
creating the partitions.  Interestingly though, if I rerun the RedHat install,
it does not see the partitions that were created last time, only the NTFS
partition.

Mike

Stuart Mace wrote:

> I have an Athlon ASUS K7M mobo with UDMA/66 enabled.  Granted, it is on a
> Mandrake system, but I've had it running RH6.1 previously without any
> difficulty.
>
> If Leonards suggestions do not solve your problem, I'm afraid I have no idea
> what is causing your difficulties.
>
> regards,
>
> Stu.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leonard den Ottolander [mailto:l j den ottolander freeler nl]
> Sent: 08 May 2000 23:05
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: RedHat 6.1 installation reboots before writing partitions
>
> Date forwarded:         8 May 2000 18:47:03 -0000
> From:                   "Mike Hansen" <mgh520 yahoo com>
> To:                     <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> Subject:                RedHat 6.1 installation reboots before writing
> partitions
> Date sent:              Mon, 8 May 2000 13:46:25 -0500
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> > I'm trying to install RedHat 6.1 from CD onto an AMD Athlon system with
> > an FIC SD11 motherboard and a 10.2 GB Western Digital Caviar
> > UDMA/66 drive.  It seems I have a few things working against me here.
> > The hardware compatibility list suggests that Athlon motherboards may
> > be incompatible and a quick search of the mailing list archives suggests
> > that UDMA/66 may be the problem.
> >
> > I am using the graphic installation, custom install.  Right after I define
> > the partitions I want and click next, the GUI goes away and I'm left at
> > a console that says the system is being shut down.  There is no
> > indication of any errors before that, except a missing security policy
> file
> > for X which other postings here have said is no big deal.  If I use the
> text
> > installation, at the same point I get kicked out of the install program
> but I
> > see a signal 11 error.
> >
> > I don't understand the UDMA/66 problem.  Is my motherboard forcing
> > UDMA/66 and Linux cannot access the drive because of it?  I have all of
> > the bios settings relating to my drive set to AUTO DETECT, so it is in
> > control.  I suppose I could try to drop the drive down to UDMA/33 and see
> > what happens, but I'd rather not impact NT performance just for the sake
> > of having Linux on the same drive.
>
>  You don't have to worry about a performance loss because of using
> UDMA/33MHz=MB/s. The WD drive you have won't saturate the interface.
> For the moment UDMA/66 only offers a theoretical advantage over
> UDMA/33. If you think you can solve the problem this way, try it!
>  By the way, can you access the drive using a rescue disk? Do you set a
> boot partition below 8GB?
>
> > Does anyone have any ideas on what I could try next?  I've noticed that
> > the 6.1 installation can be a bit flakey but this fails at the same exact
> > place everytime.  The other thing I should mention is that I already have
> > Windows NT 4.0 workstation installed (on an NTFS partition) on the same
> > drive and I'm attempting to install Linux to unpartitioned free space.  I
> am
> > using the lastest boot image from the RedHat errata that says it fixes a
> > problem in recognizing NTFS partitions.  Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Mike
> >
>
>  I am sorry I can't be of any more help with the problem. I have no
> experience with Athlons nor UDMA/66...
>
>  Good luck!
>  Leonard.
>
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