F10 installation error

[Luc MAIGNAN]

I can reproduce the problem by booting in rescue mode and make a 
mkfs.ext3 on the partition of my drive. mkfs hangs after a while. No 
messages are shown

Bryn M. Reeves a écrit :
> Luc MAIGNAN wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to install F10 on an external FireWire drive (Western 
>> Digital MyPasseport III). But unfortunaly, F10 is unable to format it 
>> (it hangs after 90%) ou write packages on it (hangs after 450 
>> packages on 1300).
>> There was any problem on the same hardware with F9.
>>
>> ANyone has an idea ?
>
> Do you have any messages on the text consoles when it hangs? (ctrl-alt 
> and F1-F4 to switch between installer startup messages, interactive 
> shell, anaconda log and syslog VTs during a graphical install).
>
> If there's something there it would be good to capture it & post it to 
> the list.
>
> If the whole system hangs and doesn't respond to the keyboard then you 
> may need to set up a serial console to be able to capture this stuff.
>
> If you don't get anything logged and the system is still responsive, 
> it would be worth getting some sysrq-t data - run:
>
> echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger
>
> In the shell on VT2 and then copy the resulting logs to another 
> machine. This should show where things are getting stuck.
>
> It might also be worth trying a LiveCD and then trying to do stuff to 
> the firewire drive to try to reproduce the problem in a simpler 
> environment (e.g. just try to format or copy lots of data to it).
>
> Regards,
> Bryn.
>