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Anomally
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 Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 1:48 am Post subject: immediate problems; sata hd |
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I'm sure you see alot of issues with sata hds and here is yet another (atleast I think it is the problem). Right at the very beginning of my install, when I'm "preparing disks," I have a problem when I try and mount the swap space:
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swapon /dev/sda2
swapon: /dev/sda2: Device or resource busy
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Also when I try and mount /mnt/gentoo to the newly formatted partitions, I get the following error:
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mount: /dev/sda3 already mounted or /mnt/gentoo busy
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The first partition is EXT2 and the third is ReiserFS (no problems in fdisk). I only have one sata hd, no pata hd in this system. This drive is on the Promise 20376 controller and so I had to put it in an array (even though its just one HD). What can I do? I'm not even sure this is doable and if it is, if it is worth it. Somebody please help me out. Thanks. |
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Anomally
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 6:28 pm Post subject: Permission issues with sata hd |
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when I try an untar the first stage tarball I get lots of errors, the vast majority of which are like the following:
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cannot [change mode/ownership or open] :Read-only file system
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I don't know how to resolve this or my first issue with mounting the different FS's. Can somebody help? Suggestions? |
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jdgill0
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| Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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Anomally,
Are you absolutely sure you have to put the single drive into a "mirror" just because you have a Promise 20376 controller? I know for fact on a Dual Athlon MP system that help maintain that has a Promise controller that we did NOT have to use the "raid" stuff. I seem to recall we just disabled that stuff in the bios, or skipped it on startup .. it has been a while since I touched that system. Have you checked to see if you can "disable" the raid features of the controller in the bios?
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Anomally
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 5:12 am Post subject: |
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| I'll double check: I'll delete the array and try working from there |
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Anomally
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| Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 5:21 am Post subject: [RESOLVED] |
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| Looks like your right, I don't need any array configurations. I'm used to having atleast some sort of configuration setup in the RAID menu in order to use a sata hd, I guess not so with Promise controllers. Thanks for your help |
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