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Problem installing after change of HDD B3

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nobbe2003
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Problem installing after change of HDD B3

Post by nobbe2003 »

Hi,

I bought a B3 with a 2 TB disk. And then I took the 2 TB disk and put it in my computer, beaus there I had a 3 TB disk that I couldnt use. Have to old controller on the motherboard.

So i did put my 3 TB disk in the B3 and have done de reinstall as its dicribed on Wiki.

My disk is Western Digital Caviar Green WD30EZRX 3TB 5400rpm 64MB 3.5" SATA-3

The installation seems to go right, its greens about 15 min. Then its starting to blink purple. Never turns blue.

Can someone help me?

I have managed to create a rescue USB and log in to root. But I dont know any comands in SSH.
Nöbbe
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Re: Problem installing after change of HDD B3

Post by Nöbbe »

Hi,

I'm nobbe2003's first line support, here are some more info about the system:

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# parted -l
Model: ATA WDC WD30EZRX-00M (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 3001GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name  Flags
 1      17.4kB  10.7GB  10.7GB  ext3            root
 2      10.7GB  3000GB  2989GB                  home  lvm
 3      3000GB  3001GB  1074MB  linux-swap(v1)  swap

# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/disk/
# cd /mnt/disk/
# du -s
1056288	.

# df
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                 6.0M      3.9M      1.8M  68% /
tmpfs                   252.1M     56.0K    252.0M   0% /tmp
/dev/sdb1                 3.9G    406.2M      3.5G  10% /mnt/usb
/dev/sda1                 9.8G      1.2G      8.2G  12% /mnt/disk
The upgrade of uboot has also been performed (http://wiki.excito.org/wiki/index.php/U ... _3TB_disks) but could anyone tell me how to confirm that it went ok? (I mean, obviously it can find the disk, so I guess it worked ok.)

To make sure the disk didn't have any flags or anything left from the PC he ran:

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M
(as found in http://forum.excito.net/viewtopic.php?f ... 3tb#p21476)

I don't know how to mount the lvm partition so I can't really tell you how that looks.

BR
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Re: Problem installing after change of HDD B3

Post by Nöbbe »

Hi,

I see I forgot to post the solution to the problem.

The uboot upgrade had not been successful, to my understanding it was the particular USB memory stick that wasn't supported. I noticed that when I connected to the UART (serial interface) and could see the console messages. Using a different USB memory ensured the uboot upgrade success and then there were no problems with the new HDD.
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