Thanks for the help everyone.  In the end, it turned out that sfdisk is indeed the culprit.  We created a 2.1T partition with fdisk, then asked sfdisk for the size and it said: -92,xxx,xxx.  Unfortunately, this means we have to either fix it or find an alternate solution to creating partitions.  If the word ``parted'' is on the tip of your tongue  I'll bet you haven't actually used the thing...

There were a few bugs of ours that acted as red herrings, but Linspire is now up and running on this system with ReiserFS 3 and kernel 2.6.5.

While I'm here, I have some other questions:
Cliff

Hans Reiser wrote:
Clifford Beshers wrote:

Thanks Hans, but no need.  I found the page in the FAQ about three minutes after I posted.  I get so used to google finding me the right things, I occasionally forget to just go to the place I know should have the answers.

So far, I know that sfdisk choked on creating the partition, but that fdisk succeeded.  After that the install proceeded normally, but the system didn't reboot.  I have to go get details on why, but my guessis either lilo or a missing module in the initrd.

If you want us to research the problem source for you further, let us know.  Be  suspicious of the device driver....


Hans Reiser wrote:

Vladimir Saveliev wrote:

Hello

On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 02:58, Clifford Beshers wrote:
 

What are the current size limitations for disks/partitions/filesystems
with the following combinations?  My googling has produced
inconsistent answers.
       { linux 2.4.24, linux 2.6.5 } X { reiserfs3, reiser4 }
 



http://namesys.com/faq.html#reiserfsspecs

 

We have a new machine with a 3-ware 8 port controller (looks like a
scsi controller to the system, but actually drives 8 ide drives).  We
have 8 x 300GB drives attached for a total > 2TB.

Our IT guy has been unable to install Linspire on it (linux 2.6.5,
reiserfs3).  I'm about to go look in more detail, but I thought I'd
find out what the bounds were for sure.

 



I assume mkreiserfs was not the reason why you guys failed to install
linux on your hardware. It works for > 2tb devices.

 

Thanks,

Cliff

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Please provide exact answer to this question about what are V3 limits.  Vitaly, please assist.