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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu 'Starting up partitioner' freezes during Ubuntu Server install Post 302560729 by lorewap3 on Friday 30th of September 2011 04:48:40 PM

09-30-2011

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'Starting up partitioner' freezes during Ubuntu Server install

Here's my hardware:

GA-880GA-UD3H(rev. 2.2)

Had Ubuntu 11.04 server running with 6 Seagate 1TB ST31000524AS drives. Was NOT using the 2 white gigabyte sata ports, only blue. (8 sata ports total on MB)
1x IDE DVD-ROM (For Ubuntu Server Install disk)

I was trying to upgrade to use all SATA slots.
4 x Seagate 1 TB ST31000524AS in blue sata slots.
2 x Seagate XT 2 TB ST32000641AS in blue sata slots.
2 x Seagate Green 2TB ST2000DL003 in remaining 2 white sata slots.

I've tried setting both SATA chipsets to AHCI, to RAID (with no RAID setup), to IDE.

I don't want a hardware raid, I want to setup a software raid using LVM so I can expand/reduce drives with much more ease and flexibility than a hardware raid would allow.

As the title says, the installer works fines and the hardware RAIDS see all the drives just fine. It's when it gets to "Starting up Partitioner" that is just freezes at 37%.

I am open to ANY suggestions. I have changed every BIOS setting related to SATA that I can think of, yet it still freezes there.

A very important piece to note, however, is that the 4 x 1TB drives that are still hooked in still have the old partitions in them. I have tried to boot Gparted to format them but even that freezes and never gives me a hard drive list to format that. I've considered that 'might' be the problem, but then why would a program designed for formatting drives freeze as well? Any clues at all where to go from here would be so very much appreciated!

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jmide

JMIDE(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						  JMIDE(4)

NAME

     jmide -- JMicron Technology JMB36x PCIe to SATA II/PATA controller driver

SYNOPSIS

     jmide* at pci? dev ? function ? flags 0x0000
     ahcisata* at jmide?

DESCRIPTION

     The jmide driver supports the JMicron Technology JMB36x IDE controllers.

     These PCI-e controllers exist in different flavors (1 or 2 PATA Ultra/133 ports and/or 1 or 2 SATA-II ports), and are highly flexible.  The
     SATA ports can be attached to the integrated AHCI controller or attached to the PCI IDE channels in PATA emulation, in either single-drive
     emulation on each PCI IDE channels, or in master/slave emulation on one of the PCI IDE channels.

     When enabled, the AHCI controller can either be on the PCI function 0 or function 2.  The PCI IDE controller can also be on either PCI func-
     tion, and can share the PCI function with AHCI.  The jmide driver supports both the AHCI controller and PCI IDE controller in various config-
     urations.

SEE ALSO

     ahcisata(4), ata(4), atapi(4), intro(4), pci(4), pciide(4), wd(4), wdc(4)

AUTHORS

     The jmide driver was written by Manuel Bouyer.

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