Re: Re: Re: Re: Mount failed: Invalid argument
>All the above said, I'm not entirely clear on
what your actual problem
>is. Why do you need to mount an extra filesystem
by hand from the
>installer?
I'm not trying to mount any "extra" filesystem.
I'm trying to mount the root, and the Debian
installer won't let me. After partitioning the
disk (a standard boot partition, swap partition,
and root partition setup), initializing all
partitions, and activating the swap partition, the
next step the installer displays is the following:
You must mount your root filesystem ("/") before
you can mount any other file systems. Would you
like to mount /dev/hda3 as the root filesystem?
I answer "Yes"
The system always comes back with: "Mount failed:
invalid argument"
The installer doesn't display the command line, so
I have no idea what argument is invalid. At that
point, I can't continue until I mount the root,
and the installer won't do that, so the only thing
I can do is power off.
I've been reading a number of different
installation advice pages, some extremely well
written, but they all have one fatal flaw - they
all assume that every step in the process will go
as planned. None of them have anything on
troubleshooting when things don't happen as they
are supposed to.
I'll try finding and reading info about the mount
command for now. It seems that I'll have to mount
the root from the command line, but without
knowing what "invalid argument" the installation
program itself is using, it's pretty frustrating
to troubleshoot.
Doug
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