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