> K8N-E. It says:
>
> way too damn slow for
Tell me about it! Pages don't open or give errors or
lead to a rabbit warren of irrelevant links. English
often incomprehensible. No more Asus products for this
buckaroo!
>
> It said that LBA mode will be disabled if the disk
> was "formatted"
> with
> K8N-E. It says:
>
> way too damn slow for
Tell me about it! Pages don't open or give errors or
lead to a rabbit warren of irrelevant links. English
often incomprehensible. No more Asus products for this
buckaroo!
>
> It said that LBA mode will be disabled if the disk
> was "formatted"
> with
> PartitionMagic is the best for this, but at $70 it is a bit pricey.
> There may be free programs to do this, but I have no experience with them.
QTparted: open-source alternative to PQMagic, _and_ it's significantly
faster (e.g. resizing a 40GB NTFS partition to 10GB with PQMagic took
me an hour
> that before jumping on people trying to help.
>
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maxim wexler wrote:
>>Maxim, if you want the system to boot from the hard
>>disk, I really think
>>you have no choice but to repartition and re-install
>>the system, with
>>boot as the first partition.
>>
>>
>
>On the Sempron there are two HDs, the 120G, pri-mast
>and a 3.5G(fat32) as a pri-
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote:
> > I imagine any CD included with a motherboard is old
> > before it hits the
> > shelves...
>
> So what? The "tool" will still work. Kindly read what
> I wrote!
I *did* read what you wrote.
My point was if there was an update on the CD it would be old.
--- "A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote:
>
> > So there must be a problem w/
> > the Asus K8N-E(Sempron box) BIOS. I updated it
> using
> > the tool that came w/ the support CD but it only
> made
> > matters worse:
>
> Did you download the latest B
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote:
> Now, the Asus brd does have raid capability. Would
> that be a way out of this morass?
Its probably software RAID - you're better off using Linux's own software
RAID.
> How does raid work?
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
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On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote:
> So there must be a problem w/
> the Asus K8N-E(Sempron box) BIOS. I updated it using
> the tool that came w/ the support CD but it only made
> matters worse:
Did you download the latest BIOS from Asus's site and use that?
I imagine any CD included with a
>
> Maxim, if you want the system to boot from the hard
> disk, I really think
> you have no choice but to repartition and re-install
> the system, with
> boot as the first partition.
On the Sempron there are two HDs, the 120G, pri-mast
and a 3.5G(fat32) as a pri-slave. LBA is set to auto
in the
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> Richard Fish wrote:
>
>> No, it can understand reiserfs and xfs filesystems just fine.
>
>
> Actually, grub does have an issue with reiserfs.
True, I had forgotten about that. Thanks for the correction.
> As already mentioned, using reiserfs on boot is a compl
Richard Fish wrote:
A. Khattri wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote:
I tried to mkreiserfs /dev/hda2, the boot partition,
My guess is that grub only
understands ext2 file-systems so can't work with your boot partition.
No, it can understand reiserfs and xfs filesystems just fine.
> By diverse means, we arrive at the same end.
>
> Holly
Thanks, Holly. I remember thinking your suggestion too
drastic to contemplate. Starting to look more
reasonable now :o
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A. Khattri wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote:
>
>> This reminds me. When I installed 2005.0(sempron-box)
>> I tried to mkreiserfs /dev/hda2, the boot partition,
>> since that gave no problem in 2004.3(k6-box)but it
>> gave me some sort of error, forget which, so I went
>> for the de
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 18:30:19 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote:
> You should leave /boot as an ext2 partition. My guess is that grub only
> understands ext2 file-systems so can't work with your boot partition.
GRUB does understand ReiserFS, although it is a complete waste of space
using Reiser on a /
maxim wexler schreef:
>>Error 17
>>
>>Installing to /dev/hda2, the gentoo boot part, gave
>>same result
>>
>>Well, at least now it gives me an error num.
>
>
> ...answering himself
>
> 17 : Cannot mount selected partition
> This error is returned if the partition requested
> exists, but the fil
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote:
> This reminds me. When I installed 2005.0(sempron-box)
> I tried to mkreiserfs /dev/hda2, the boot partition,
> since that gave no problem in 2004.3(k6-box)but it
> gave me some sort of error, forget which, so I went
> for the default, or anyways, the sugg
On 6/24/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Error 17
> >
> > Installing to /dev/hda2, the gentoo boot part, gave
> > same result
> >
> > Well, at least now it gives me an error num.
>
> ...answering himself
>
> 17 : Cannot mount selected partition
> This error is returned if the parti
> Error 17
>
> Installing to /dev/hda2, the gentoo boot part, gave
> same result
>
> Well, at least now it gives me an error num.
...answering himself
17 : Cannot mount selected partition
This error is returned if the partition requested
exists, but the filesystem type cannot be recognized
by
> > -- it *is* set to [auto] in the BIOS? BTW, HD is
> Maybe if you turn on LBA it will help. It says here
> that grub can access the full disk with LBA:
see above. In the BIOS there are two choices, auto and
disabled. If there's another way to turn LBA on, I'm
all ears!
>
> You might need
>
> Yep. Can you force LBA on?
Used grub-install --force-lba /dev/hda. After a bunch
of fd0 I/O errors(?) it said everything was fine, no
errors found. Then I rebooted, got:
GRUB Loading stage1.5
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 17
Installing to /dev/hda2, the gentoo boot part, gave
same re
maxim wexler wrote:
>grub> configfile (hd0,1)/grub/grub.conf # /dev/hda2
>
>Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported
>by BIOS
>
>has this anything to do with LBA being "off" in POST
>-- it *is* set to [auto] in the BIOS? BTW, HD is
>listed in POST screen thus:
>
>Pri Master: Maxtor 4
maxim wexler wrote:
> Went through the "saved" pile and found this:
>
>
>>Try 1 (should bring up the boot menu):
>>grub> configfile (hd0,3)/grub/grub.conf
>
>
> grub> configfile (hd0,1)/grub/grub.conf # /dev/hda2
>
> Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported
> by BIOS
>
> has thi
Went through the "saved" pile and found this:
> Try 1 (should bring up the boot menu):
> grub> configfile (hd0,3)/grub/grub.conf
grub> configfile (hd0,1)/grub/grub.conf # /dev/hda2
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported
by BIOS
has this anything to do with LBA being "off" in POS
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