On 16/07/17 02:00, Robin Laing wrote:
Hello,
Trying to help someone install F26 on an older laptop that has just had the HDD replaces with an SSD. The SSD was used for a short time on a different machine.
A couple of install attempts with the KDE live stick were a big failure when formatting the partitions. CPU usage (dual core) went to 100% on both cores and then died.
SSD was partitioned but not formatted.
I have no experience with SSD troubles but this seems strange for a little used drive to not be able to be formatted.
Could the formatting issues be related to partitions not being on the end of the virtual cylinders?
Will test later once we get the drive out of the laptop to see if we can partition and format it.
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Took drive out of laptop and put in a carrier and found that the partitions were totally screwed. According to cfdisk, the partitions left over 1E bytes free. I would love to have an SSD with over an Exabyte of space.
Repartitioned the drive with cfdisk, created the luks containers and formatted with no errors.
Now the issue is, is the problem the old laptop or the installer not partitioning the drive properly.
Robin
try to blank the drive clearing all partitions. i had an similar issue a while back
On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 10:31 PM, Robin Laing MeSat@telusplanet.net wrote:
On 16/07/17 02:00, Robin Laing wrote:
Hello,
Trying to help someone install F26 on an older laptop that has just had the HDD replaces with an SSD. The SSD was used for a short time on a different machine.
A couple of install attempts with the KDE live stick were a big failure when formatting the partitions. CPU usage (dual core) went to 100% on both cores and then died.
SSD was partitioned but not formatted.
I have no experience with SSD troubles but this seems strange for a little used drive to not be able to be formatted.
Could the formatting issues be related to partitions not being on the end of the virtual cylinders?
Will test later once we get the drive out of the laptop to see if we can partition and format it.
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Took drive out of laptop and put in a carrier and found that the partitions were totally screwed. According to cfdisk, the partitions left over 1E bytes free. I would love to have an SSD with over an Exabyte of space.
Repartitioned the drive with cfdisk, created the luks containers and formatted with no errors.
Now the issue is, is the problem the old laptop or the installer not partitioning the drive properly.
Robin
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On 07/17/17 10:31, Robin Laing wrote:
On 16/07/17 02:00, Robin Laing wrote:
Hello,
Trying to help someone install F26 on an older laptop that has just had the HDD replaces with an SSD. The SSD was used for a short time on a different machine.
A couple of install attempts with the KDE live stick were a big failure when formatting the partitions. CPU usage (dual core) went to 100% on both cores and then died.
SSD was partitioned but not formatted.
I have no experience with SSD troubles but this seems strange for a little used drive to not be able to be formatted.
Could the formatting issues be related to partitions not being on the end of the virtual cylinders?
Will test later once we get the drive out of the laptop to see if we can partition and format it.
Robin Laing _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org
Took drive out of laptop and put in a carrier and found that the partitions were totally screwed. According to cfdisk, the partitions left over 1E bytes free. I would love to have an SSD with over an Exabyte of space.
Repartitioned the drive with cfdisk, created the luks containers and formatted with no errors.
Now the issue is, is the problem the old laptop or the installer not partitioning the drive properly.
The drive has only been used successfully in another system, yes?
Maybe mention the make and model of both the laptop and SSD? Potential compatibility issue?
On 07/17/17 10:31, Robin Laing wrote:
Now the issue is, is the problem the old laptop or the installer not partitioning the drive properly.
One other thing.
You can boot the Live image and see if "parted" is included and see if you can manually partition the drive successfully.
On 16/07/17 20:44, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/17/17 10:31, Robin Laing wrote:
Now the issue is, is the problem the old laptop or the installer not partitioning the drive properly.
One other thing.
You can boot the Live image and see if "parted" is included and see if you can manually partition the drive successfully.
Have not tried to partition the drive other than the installer on that laptop. As it is old, we pulled the drive today and did some other work on the laptop. Until we get a new BIOS battery into the machine, it is on hold. Will test as soon as the battery is replace.
Robin
On 07/17/17 12:27, Robin Laing wrote:
On 16/07/17 20:44, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/17/17 10:31, Robin Laing wrote:
Now the issue is, is the problem the old laptop or the installer not partitioning the drive properly.
One other thing.
You can boot the Live image and see if "parted" is included and see if you can manually partition the drive successfully.
Have not tried to partition the drive other than the installer on that laptop. As it is old, we pulled the drive today and did some other work on the laptop. Until we get a new BIOS battery into the machine, it is on hold. Will test as soon as the battery is replace.
OK....
FWIW, the HD on my old Acer Aspire 5920 decided to go belly-up. So, I acquired a Crucial MX300 275GB drive and did a fresh install from a KDE Live USB image. No problems to install or use.