Bug#295645: Grub makes bad decisions and fstab not populated
On Thursday 17 February 2005 08:27, Joel Fenwick wrote:
> This was my test of a clean install on a system previously running
> woody so the disks were already partitioned. Given recent bugs with
> partitioning I didn't want to write anything to the partition table.
I've been using partman for over a year and have personally never
experienced any breakage.
> There doesn't seem to be a clear way to "Leave the partitions alone
> but mount this one as /". It seemed as if "You didn't modify the
> partition table so you can't go on".
You always have to format your / partition, but there is absolutely no
requirement to change partition layout.
> Also what is with the little gremlin icon which appears next to swap
> in the partition menu?
Documented on the help page available in partman.
> I chose grub and it didn't complain or give any error messages but on
> reboot it turned out it had chosen the first partition (ie swap) as
> the root. This is a problem.
>
> Now we get to the "post first boot setup"
> The cdrom is on hdd. Although the installer (and later
> gnome-auto-cd-mounter-thing) both found it, apt could not. It turns
> out that I don't have swap either.
> The reason for this seems to be that fstab was not populated and
> contains: # UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM
That is probably caused by the fact that you did not finish partitioning
properly. If you decide not to use essential parts of the system, you
should be prepared to deal with breakage.
Cheers,
FJP
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