[plug] Large HD install prob

[McMeikan, Andrew]

I would stick with LBA, and tell the kernel to use linear addressing just to
be safe.

I assume you can mount and read all the disk if you boot from somewhere
else? (esp. able to find init!)

if you can read the disk if mounted from another (say a rescue/boot) disk
then it must be kernel related problem.  What FS are you using?  ext2?  did
you check for bad blocks when installing?

last bit of advice is to watch for error messages on alternate consoles
(3,4,10 depending on dist) to see if something odd gets spat out.  Also
before it finishes or does a reboot do a 'sync' incase the disk has a huge
write delay buffer.

good luck I will buy the disk off you cheap if you can't use it ;-)

	cya,	Andrew...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mark Saxon [SMTP:mark at omninet.net.au]
> Sent:	Friday, March 03, 2000 3:08 PM
> To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject:	[plug] Large HD install prob
> 
> A couple of weeks ago I tried to install linux on a new Fujitsu 13.6GB 
> drive and had problems
> Asked the group for any ideas but consensus seemed to be I should not 
> have a problem.
> Still have not had any luck and am going round in circles with it.
> I have read the Large HD mini how to plenty.
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> I have Lilo installed on hda1 with lilo configured to boot the image 
> at hdc1 (this should work right) it has worked okay for drives under 
> 8GB.
>  
> but both brands fail to boot with the same message -kernel panic init 
> not found-
> Hope some one has some ideas
> 
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
>