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Locosway

Member

From: Anaheim, CA, USA.

Registered: 2011-10-04

Posts: 12

Installation errors with cfdisk

cfdisk crashes and errors on two different hard drives on my otherwise fine laptop. It's a Dell Inspiron M5010 that's about 6 months old. I've run Windows and Ubuntu on it fine (Ubuntu needed some ACPI lovin'). Now when I go to install Arch I get an error from cfdisk

[  223.083533] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0

There's a ton of these errors with different numbers at the beginning and different sectors.

Any help or pointing in the right direction would be much appreciated.

scarecrow

Member

From: Greece

Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 715

Re: Installation errors with cfdisk

Could you try booting with either an "acpi=off" argument, or "pci=nocrs" ?

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Locosway

Member

From: Anaheim, CA, USA.

Registered: 2011-10-04

Posts: 12

Re: Installation errors with cfdisk

Wow, I guess I'm an idiot... At least I got a new hybrid drive out of that deal.. 

Thanks.