Help, Error loading on SATA Drives

[kevk]

Hi All

Please can some one help me or provide some advice. I have managed to successfully install Linux OEM on an IDE drive, But dont seem to come right with installing on a SATA.
I have installed a new 200gig SATA drive and Wanted to do a fresh install onto the SATA, but somewhere i am going wrong. it will not boot from the SATA Drive and an error occurs.

Here are the steps that i followed? any help would be appreciated.

1. Downloaded ISO image and Booted from CD
2. /mnt/cdrom/defpartitionsata.sh
3. /mnt/cdrom/defformatsata.sh
4. /mnt/cdrom/install.sh /dev/sda1
5. /mnt/cdrom/defbootsata.sh /dev/sda1
6. Ctrl X to exit editors
7. Reboot

After reboot the following error occurs
*.........
*Checking root file system
ext2fs-check-if-mount: no such file or directory while determining whether / dev / root is mounted
fsck.ext3: no such file or directory while trying to open / dev / root
/dev/root:
The super block could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 file system if the devise is valid and it rarely contains ext2 file system and not a swop or ufs system then the super block is corrupt and you might try running e2fsk with an alternative super block.
File system could not be fixed.
Give root password for maintenance or type control "D" to continue.

thats as far as I get. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

[_Demo_]

Could you check the boot messages to see if it finds your hard drive controller and you hard drive properly?

_Demo_

[kevk]

Hi

Thank you for you post. I have now gone and purchased a IDE 200gig standard ATA hard drive and NOT SATA. I am frustrated to no ends.

Now I have re-installed sage tv on the IDE and It will not Connect to the activation Server. I keep getting a ERROR SAGE TV activation server....

I had manged to get sage TV working on an IDE 4gig. Obviously to small. Just to test and see if linux app would work with my hardware. Which it all seemed ok. Now I have removed the 4gig IDE and inserted a NEW 200gig ATA drive. Abd installed the Latest ver .6 of Sage. Now it wont seem to activate. Is there away to copy the keys from the small IDE drive ??

<will still check the boot log and see whats going on... I am a newbie to Linux but can find my way around the console? >

Thanks in advance

[laurenglenn]

Originally Posted by kevk

Hi All

Please can some one help me or provide some advice. I have managed to successfully install Linux OEM on an IDE drive, But dont seem to come right with installing on a SATA.
I have installed a new 200gig SATA drive and Wanted to do a fresh install onto the SATA, but somewhere i am going wrong. it will not boot from the SATA Drive and an error occurs.

Here are the steps that i followed? any help would be appreciated.

1. Downloaded ISO image and Booted from CD
2. /mnt/cdrom/defpartitionsata.sh
3. /mnt/cdrom/defformatsata.sh
4. /mnt/cdrom/install.sh /dev/sda1
5. /mnt/cdrom/defbootsata.sh /dev/sda1
6. Ctrl X to exit editors
7. Reboot

After reboot the following error occurs
*.........
*Checking root file system
thats as far as I get. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

Instead of running defbootsata.sh, run defboot.sh

Change all the hda references to sda and it should work. I couldn't get it to boot without an error until I did that.

Lauren

[plawlor]

Lauren,

I had the same problem. I tried what you suggested and still no go. Same error! Any other thoughts?

plawlor

[plawlor]

I'm up and running. Turns out I had a bad iso afterall. Running defboot.sh instead of defbootsata.sh and making the necessary adjustments from hda to sda did the trick as Lauren suggested.

There is an error in the fstab file used for sata in the iso. It references /dev/root and /dev/boot instead of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2.

plawlor