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Laptop: HP DV6000
When I format the hard drive, later on when it should mount root ( / ), boot and home partitions, it fails .. I thought it'll mount them later on but once it started to generate kernel images, buffer I/O errors started to come out one after another.
What's wrong ? The situation is identical on both versions ( 2009, 2010 ).
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Last 3 days - Ubuntu 10.04, Fedora 13, Windows XP, Windows Vista .. none of them failed.
** The disk is Toshiba MK1234GSX ( ATA ).
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What kind of HDD diagnostic did you run allready? Wich file systems did you use? Tried to rebuild the partition table allready?
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What kind of HDD diagnostic did you run allready?
None, as I don't know any.
Wich file systems did you use?
ext3 and ext4.
Tried to rebuild the partition table allready?
And again .. how to do that ?
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I assume you are working from the installation cd and are therefore logged in as root. If not, do what you need to do to run the following with root privileges.
Can you post the output of 'fdisk -l /dev/sda'? Then we will go from there.
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Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004a580
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 14243 114406866 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14244 14593 2811375 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 14244 14593 2811343+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
** Information retrieved through Ubuntu ..
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Laptop: HP DV6000
When I format the hard drive, later on when it should mount root ( / ), boot and home partitions, it fails .....
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 14243 114406866 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14244 14593 2811375 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 14244 14593 2811343+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris]
Okay, So you have two partitions on your drive (not counting the extended partion sda2) The extended partition contains the swap partition -- which uses the entire extended partition.
The rest of your file system is all on sda1. This means that it must be '/' and that /boot and '/home' must be part of that file system.
What command did you use to format /dev/sda1 ? (Is it ext3, ext4, reiser ?)
What command did you use to format /dev/sda5 ? (Ensure it is a swap partition).
In your case, there should only be two mount points /dev/sda1 on '/' and /dev/sda5' as swap.
This might not really be what you want. Here is my partition table:
ewaller@odin:~ 1002 %sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Password:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x87b33479
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 7581 60888056 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 37185 38913 13884416 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 7581 37185 237794312 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 * 7581 7705 995998+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 7705 8203 4000153+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 12028 37184 202073571 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 8204 12027 30716248+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 8203 8203 5302 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition table entries are not in disk order
In this case:
/dev/sda5 is on /boot (and is ext2)
/dev/sda7 is on /home (and is ext4)
/dev/sda8 is on / (and is ext3)
I don't mess with the NTFS very often and only mount them on demand.
You might want to reevaluate your partition design such that, at the least, / and /boot are on separate partitions. I suggest isolating /home as well. It makes it much easier to do a clean install of the OS.
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The question isn't how to manage the whole partition table ( root, boot, home, etc. ) but why does it fail to mount these partitions ?
ArchLinux installation CD .. format automatically, enter the size for each and go .. format completed .. mounting partitions .. failure.
What could be wrong if other distros work ( reformatting the hard drive, creating new partitions, etc. ) and this one doesn't ?
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The question isn't how to manage the whole partition table ( root, boot, home, etc. ) but why does it fail to mount these partitions ?
My point is that there exists only one partition on your disk drive that can be used as a file system (sda1). The quote above implies to me that you think there are three.
What happens, having booted from the CD, if you create an empty directory ( example: /mnt/mydisk ) and then try (as root) mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/mydisk ??
If that fails, please post the error. If it works, take a look at the structure if /mnt/mydisk and see if /boot and /home are in there.
Lastly, if it works, take a look at the output of mount and verify what is the file system type.
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