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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: lvandeve on November 02, 2005, 02:03:52 AM
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I have installed SME on another system & have things running well for over a month. I tried loading (same) SME cd onto a new system and got the following error message at the end of the boot cycle:
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
Cramfs: wrong magic
FAT: unable to read boot sector
Isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev+09:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32
Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 09:00
I deleted all partitions on the hard drive & reformatted and get this same error message when booting the cd. I then downloaded another (clean) version of SME, burned another cd and get this same message. What do I need to do to get this to load on this Hard Drive? The drive is 120 gig maxtor. I set up a dos FAT partition (taking the entire drive).
Thanks for any help
Larry
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Bet your hard drive is either failing or has a corrupt track. Run Maxtor's Powermax utility and do a full diagnostic scan on it, then "write zeroes" to completely erase the drive.
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Thanks, I did try to "zero out" the drive .. the drive looks fine. I downloaded sme v7.0, burned new disk and it loaded fine. I have several (3)v6.0 disks (all checksums, checked) and none of these would work to boot & load.
Oh, well ... I guess I'm up & running on 7.0 (beta)
Thanks, for the reply.
Larry
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The drive wasn't by any chance SATA, was it? Because that would explain why it didn't work with 6.0. SATA is not supported.
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Yes, that drive is an SATA. That explains a lot!
Thanks for the reply ... I did not know an SATA was not supported.
Larry