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Hi,
Just received a refurbished Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q and am working on installing the latest "LinuxCNC 2.9.4 Debian 12 Bookworm PREEMPT-RT ISO".  Got it flashed to USB via balenaEtcher and can run the installer and the live version.  With the installer, I make it to the partitioning section and it fails with:  "The ext4 filesystem creation in partition #1 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) failed."  I'm hoping someone knows the magic sauce to get this machine running...

I have been using the default guided steps (Guided - use entire disk) for partitioning, not trying to do anything fancy.

In the BIOS I have set the following:
Security/Secure Boot = disabled
Startup/CMS = enabled
Startup/Boot Mode = Legacy Only (options are "Auto" or "UEFI Only")

I also tried disabling all the "Intel(R) Manageability", "Intel(R) Software Guard Extensions", "Intel(R) SIPP Support" in the Advanced section.  As an aside, should I disable "Turbo Mode" in the "Advanced/CPU Setup" section?

In the live session I can get to "GParted", should I try partitioning the drive there before running the installer or is this a bad idea?  I was hesitant to try that...

I'm not sure how to proceed, any advice is welcome.
Thanks
Tom

PS/FWIW I recently installed LinuxCNC to a laptop using ISO/balenaEtcher with no problems (other than the laptop not being suitable).

Hello Kieran,
A hardware driver such as mesa or ethercat when run will expose hal pins. You can use halshow to see the driver pins. These driver pins can now connect to hal components pins.

linuxcnc.org/docs/html/hal/tools.html
 

Not sure how the potentiometer was used but It could replace home/limit switches
(and since it's absolute no homing cycle would be needed at startup)

The encoder is possibly used for both position and velocity feedback

Is there another motion axis?

 

The machine has been incredible for 10 years. I think something got messed up with the files. I sent them to the guy that programmed the machine to see if he could figure it out. Thank you.