- Status Closed
- Percent Complete
- Task Type Bug Report
- Category Live Mode
- Assigned To No-one
- Operating System All
- Severity Low
- Priority Very Low
- Reported Version 2.x (beta's)
- Due in Version Undecided
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FS#658 - Install halted on multi-partition drive
The installer failed to detect (and install on) /dev/sdc2. It is a 16G USB thumb drive total, with two partitions. I wanted to install elive on the second partition, but this error came up:
We found something that we want to be informed about its details, it may be a problem in Elive or a simple state that we want to know, since it happened to you it can happen to anybody and we want to make Elive as much stable as possible, please take 1 minute to report this message to our developers:
Unable to mount selected root partition /dev/sdc2 onto target directory. gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/eliveuser/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000), /dev/sdc2: sticky writable, no read permission
(file: , function: pre_copying, line: 1360)
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Before anything happened on the 16G USB stick, I was having some problems whether to use the HDD or the USB. This error came up before installing began. (I had to locate the log) Maybe because I booted with –free driver, and 'union' in the boot parameters on my Dell studio laptop 1534, with AMD and 64bit-capable. But since those errors prevent proper partition detection, all those screens asking me to choose partitions would always come out blank i.e. no entries are listed, and the installation is handicapped because there is no way to select or manually enter partition entries. The desktop has icons for them showing as 'not mounted' though.
rsync error–well i tried different things (already partitioned, clean wipe of sdc, etc) but since it failed on all attempts to get installed on a 16G thumb drive i will have to bite the bullet and wipe the primary hard drive which will take much longer since it is a 150G hard drive.
My case might be one in a million, but the installation finished, and I am now the proud owner of an Elive 15" Dell laptop, with wifi and eye candy.
(The remedy was to use gparted to create one giant 150G partition. The installer already knew what to do. I did not need to mount the drive for the installer module, which it accessed on-the-fly after I got it from my Inbox)