On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 02:09:31PM -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 04:08:48PM +0100, Jonathan Allen wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm trying to do my first FC4 install on a SATA drive/machine. All is not > > going well. > > > > I have been right through the installation several times, with various > > combinations of automatic and manual disc partitioning schemes, but they > > all seem to bomb out with the following logs: > > > > F3: > > * moving (1) to step fixupconditionals > > * moving (1) to step checkdeps > > * moving (1) to step confirminstall > > > > F4: > > <6>kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > > <4>EXT3-fs warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended > > <6>EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal > > <6>EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode > > <6>SELinux: initialised (dev hda1, type ext3), uses xattr > > <6>attempt to access beyond end of device > > <6>hda1: rw=0, want 524360, limit 208782 > > <2>EXT3-fs error (device hda1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode > > block inode=32769, block=65544 > > <3>Aborting journal on device hda1 > > <4>inode_doinit_with_dentry: getxattr returned 5 for dev=hda1 ino=32769 > > > > Any clues as to what to try next ? > > > > Jonathan > > > In order to get FC4 to work on machines with SATA drives I had to go into > the BIOS and change the SATA drive option. Now the bad news since I am > not at the machines I do not remember which option I chose. It was not the > default option and among the options it was not the combination option. > In our BIOS it was the second option made up of two or three words where > the last word was SATA. If I am at work tomorrow I can be more specific. > In my case with every kernel I got a kernel panic because the initrd file > could not be properly accessed. I checked and the BIOS setting is different with different hardware versions. We use Dells. The setting on Precisions is Raid - ATA but on Optiplex it is Combination. So the suggestion is that the BIOS setting makes a difference. -- ======================================================================= Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow -- T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Man" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when referring to system service dispatching.] ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
