having a hard time installing on an ssd

aortell24 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Jun 2012 Posts: 93

Hello everyone I am having a real hard time installing on my first ssd. I keep getting read only file system when extracting the stage 3 tar ball. I have used gentoo for years but this is my first ssd. I erases it with the "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=4m" command I dont think it is the drive because I had it working once but had a problem with the firmware for my new hd 6770 card . Any help would be great.

aortell24 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Jun 2012 Posts: 93

sorry I am using the gparted live cd to align the parttions starting with 1 MB. any thing else needed please let me know.

aortell24 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Jun 2012 Posts: 93

now it is giving me an input/ouput error

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 7:17 pm Post subject:

aortell24,

If its not the drive, its the data cable or the motherboard.

You don't need to write zeros to an SSD. mke2fs will trim it all when you make your filesystem(s).
Thats much better than writing zeros as the FLASH controller knows everything is erased.
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aortell24 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Jun 2012 Posts: 93

Thanks for the reply so there is nothing special I need to do to use ssd. I

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 7:47 pm Post subject:

aortell24,

Get the block alignment right.
Choose a fs that supports trim and make sure you use it.
Thats all.
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

aortell24 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Jun 2012 Posts: 93

thanks man