Re: [Sheflug] Installation hangs during disk format

[Will Newton <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 17 Sep 2002 10:28 pm, Robert E B Holland BEng CEng FIEE wrote:

> Everything seems OK until the hard disk formatting starts, then the
> controller / disk seems to hang (have tried this several times - and have
> gone away and had my tea just in case I am too impatient!) Using Yast in
> manual mode or Yast2 - same results.

Not sure if you can get a shell during the SuSE install, but anyway. It would 
be helpful if you could get a shell then cat /proc/pci to find out what the 
controller is and cat /proc/ide/hda/model to get the IDE controller name and 
the drive model. That's a good starting point. See if it's possible to 
manually fsck from a rescue disk (a single floppy distro like er, I forget, 
Tom's something or other :). e.g. fsck /dev/hda1
Then I would recommend checking SuSE errata, have a quick Google for the
IDE controller/disk model and see if it's a known problem.

Hope some part of that is helpful. :)
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