Sarge installer no swap

At the boot prompt for Sarge, type linux26 and press return. This boots the 2. Select your language and keyboard type and then the installer will start configuring your system. Discovering that one point cost me half a day, sadly. Switch back to the installation terminal with Alt-F1 and proceed with a normal Debian installation.

When Debian tries to boot the kernel, it hangs every time the system references the hardware clock another half day wasted tracking this down.

You will install a new kernel later that doesn't suffer from this problem, but for the moment, when it hangs having muttered about the Real Time Clock Driver or Setting the System Clock type control-C and it will carry on.

Eventually you get the the first configuration screen, which hangs. Switch to the second terminal with Alt-F2 and log in as root then run ps -auxw to find the process running hwclock.

Kill that with signal 9 e. Agree with the odd message and continue. After selecting your timezone another use of hwclock is done, causing another hang. Repeat the trick of killing it. I've figured out why the system would not fully load after booting with only one drives from the mirror Software-RAID. The solutions was simple enough. Just slip any SATA drive in the empty slot of the missing drive.

It will not do anything with the replacement drive. The drive I slipped in had data in it which was intact after. So if one of the hard drives completely dies and say you have to take it back to the dealer for warranty replacement you can just use any SATA drive as a place holder to reboot the system and keep it running with the one good RAID drive until you get a replacement.

There is one catch though. The way around this is to install GRUB on both drivers. You can install GRUB on the second drive to make it bootable. You can not move the second drive into the first drive's slot.

You may also have to modify the BIOS so that it will look for the boot record on the second hard drive. Hope this helps. Post by jjx » amazing I will try it tomorrow morning. Post by jjx » I am still facing problems. Firstly, i tried to install debian "etch". Still no sucess. When i try to partion the hdd option "Guided partition" and then "manually edit partitions" installer returns to "Partition disks" without finding any disks.

Installing both 2. Still doesnt find the hdd. Again by installing both 2. Because i cant see the hdd i cant install to the one hdd and use sofwtare raid. I am trying to install etch net install beta 2 on an xSeries now rebranded x server and i am coming across exactly the same sort of problems as the post above, basicly the disks are not getting detected by the installer.

The kernel 2. Another problem is that i cannot work out how disable the serveraid card in the bios. In my case revealed new options in the bios Find your hostraid chipset and check if is supported.

Hausen Wizened Sage. Joined Nov 25, Messages 3, What's the difference between these 2 installations? What I dislike is the ridiculously low default size. What's 2 G per disk for a system with, 64 or even more G of memory? I don't know what XigmaNAS does in this regard and it looks like you don't have any swap partitions on your data drives at all.

As to the rest, take a breath and calm down. Edit: But if you really want swap on your boot device, you could adapt this method to make it happen: HOWTO: setup a pair of larger SSDs for boot pool and data Hi all, first of all: this is an unsupported configuration. Hausen said:. FreeNAS has alway strongly urged users to create the swap partitions on the data drives.

I think your Information ist noct correct!! Joined Jul 28, Messages Just tried installing There's not a word about it in the Going way back, 9.

Ericloewe Not-very-passive-but-aggressive Moderator. Joined Feb 15, Messages 17, The installer option was in the And this Fact is completely not considered by the developer. You must log in or register to reply here. Similar threads S.

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