Am Mittwoch, den 19.08.2009, 19:05 +1000 schrieb richard terry: > with the /arch/setup program I tried auto to do the whole drive (it was a > brand new seagate 500gig HDD) > no action, just sat there. > > I tried using CFDISK > create partitions > then the setting the mount points > didn't recognise any partitions were there. After a couple of reboots and > retries it did recognise the partition was there, but wouldn't let me > allocate mount points. On one occasion it allowed me to allocated mount > points but then just died. First: best way is to open a bugreport (http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=6) so that this isn't lost in ML threads. Myself never noticed such during my/our tests. AIF uses the normal tools for partitioning and making filesystems. So you could try 2 things: a) Try using the normal tools to see if there is a problem with 2.6.30 kernel or the tools. Make (with fdisk or cfdisk) to partitions on the HD. Format these partitions afterwards (a reboot is not neeeded), for ex: mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1 mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda2 mount these partitions to /mnt mount /dev/sda1 /mnt mkdir /mnt/test mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/test Would this test work? b) Start aif in debug mode and give us the log file. Instead using /arch/setup start it with: aif -p interactive -d -l Best to go on with auto prepare. When you got stucked with above errors you could look at the output on tty7. And please give us the logfile /var/log/aif/aif.log after you could step further. > Regards > > Richard Gerhard
