Bug#637784: installation-reports: Partition disks error: No root file system is defined.
Le Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:45:11PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
>
> I started the network installer through GRUB in the Amazon Elastic Comptuter
> Cloud, and connected to it through a network console launched via preseeding.
>
> I gave a couple of details on my website: http://charles.plessy.org/Debian/debiâneries/nuage/
>
> While the detection of hard drives apparently went well (see attached
> partman log), the partition step fails with the following error.
>
>
> ┌────────────┤ [!!] Partition disks ├─────────────┐
> │ │
> │ No root file system │
> │ No root file system is defined. │
> │ │
> │ Please correct this from the partitioning menu. │
> │ │
> │ <Continue> │
> │ │
> └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Hi all,
I have retried after commenting all partman preseeding. It allowed me to try
to manually partition the drive. I have only one choice for the drive,
‘Virtual disk 1, partition #1 (xvda1) - 1.1 GB Unknown’. The guided
partitionning then proposes me the following:
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┤ [!!] Partition disks ├───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ If you continue, the changes listed below will be written to the disks. Otherwise, you will be able to make further │
│ changes manually. │
│ │
│ The partition tables of the following devices are changed: │
│ Virtual disk 1, partition #1 (xvda1) │
│ │
│ The following partitions are going to be formatted: │
│ partition #1 of Virtual disk 1, partition #1 (xvda1) as ext3 │
│ partition #5 of Virtual disk 1, partition #1 (xvda1) as swap │
│ │
│ Write the changes to disks? │
│ │
│ <Yes> <No> │
│ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
I then fails with the following error:
Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/xvda1p1 --
Invalid argument. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to
/dev/xvda1p1 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way
before rebooting.
Using the shell console, I found that the partition table was the following:
Disk /dev/xvda1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0002dcf2
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/xvda1p1 * 1 118 947803+ 83 Linux
/dev/xvda1p2 119 130 96390 5 Extended
/dev/xvda1p5 119 130 96358+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
However, the device files /dev/xvda1p1, p2 and p5 are not available. Do you have any idea ?
Have a nice week-end,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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