On Monday 19 January 2015 11:45:41 Gene Heskett did opine And Gene did reply: > Greetings; > > Amd Phenom, 8Gb of dram on an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe board. So old USB3 > isn't. > > Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS 32 bit server install here. A recent experiment > with a 32 bit Wheezy (2.7) worked extremely well when I enabled it to > install an amd64 kernel, fastest and smoothest this machine has ever > worked. Unfortunately I destroyed it by installing a library firefox > was complaining about the lack thereof, it pulled in about 20 other > packages and destroyed what little KDE I had installed to be able to > use kmail. > > I have been reading up on man fstab, but it has not solved my problem > of the boot waiting, sometimes for 30 seconds, for the drive to be > mounted at / to appear. There is no disk activity during this wait > period, and it does not always do it when booting a 32 bit PAE kernel. > > But if I build an amd64 version of that kernel, it stops dead, no disk > activity after announcing that the / device has not yet checked in. > > But, after waiting a minute, I hit m to get what is marked as a root > terminal, but which has no rights, I see that the directory contents of > / are visible. > > Fdisk complains that there are 3503 unallocated 512 byte sectors after > partition 1 on the disk, but its been doing that for 3 or 4 years. > Terrabyte disk so its not seriously effected unless it slows it somehow > that I haven't noticed. > > On wheezy, for as long as it worked, it worked a treat. > > Suggested fix for the 64 bit boot stall? I am familiar with make > xconfig. > > Thanks all. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Ping? Secondary problem, seems like a miss-match between partitioning tools. 2 of my 4 1Tb drives can do 4096 byte sectors. fdisk complains noisily about the partitions I have setup on one of these disks not being starting sector aligned, yet when I did the partitioning with gparted, the align with "cylinders" was checked. Do we have a partitioning tool that can actually sort this correctly on a 4k sector disk? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
