• Bug#258834: failed installation on Compaq Presario 1260 laptop

    From Anton Zinoviev@1:229/2 to Kevin Murphy on Thu Aug 12 19:20:07 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
    From: [email protected]

    Hi!

    You probably hit some rare but that we can not reproduce. If you have
    the oportunity to retry the installer please send us the files
    /var/log/partman and /var/log/messages. If you manage to complete the installation these files will be preserved in the directory /var/log/debian-installer.

    Anton Zinoviev

    On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 03:26:08PM -0400, Kevin Murphy wrote:

    Both auto- and manual partitioning failed in the same way. After choosing to write the partition table, I get this message:

    | [!!] Partition disks |
    Failed to create a file system
    The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of IDE1 master (hda) failed.

    Associated with this, I see a new message at the bottom of dmesg's output:

    /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table

    The partition table is supposed to look like this:

    IDE1 master (hda) - 4.3 GB Fujitsu MHF2043AT
    #1 primary 4.1 GB :-) ext3 /
    #2 logical 224.5 MB :-) swap swap

    Note that I first tried #2 as a "primary" partition. I also tried ext2 instead of ext3. In the case of ext2, I get a superficially different error message:

    | [!!] Partition disks |
    The attempt to mount a file system with type ext2 in IDE1 master, partition #1
    () at / failed.



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