Re: Problems trying to install Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 in SATA AHCI mode, over Thinkpad T410

[Almudena Garcia]

The installer detects the size correctly

El lun, 16 ago 2021 a las 21:38, Samuel Thibault (<samuel.thibault@gnu.org>) escribió:

Almudena Garcia, le lun. 16 août 2021 20:47:02 +0200, a ecrit:
> > Alternatively you could try to reboot to have the partition re-read. But
> > still it's not expected that partition re-read doesn't work, it is
> > implemented and works in my tests. As usual, actual error messages are
> > what you want to show, i.e. console 4 (or posssibly more conveniently,
> > /var/log/syslog)
>
> I tried it many times. If I do a installation in IDE mode and, after this, I
> try a new installation in AHCI mode, the installer detects the partitions
> correctly. But then fails in the "base system packages" step.

How so? We don't have a cristal ball to be able to read the error
messages.

> > "no more room" looks like somehow rumpdisk is trying to handle more data
> > than it can. What is the actual size of your disk? I don't know what
> > sizes where actually tested at all.
>
> My harddisk has ~ 320 GB

Beware of the disk limitations
http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/faq/2_gib_partition_limit/

Samuel

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