When I start the installer on the 2008 Beta 2 LiveCD (either CLI or GUI), after the step on which I set the partitions (just / in my case) i get an error stating that it could not mount the partition and then it just exits. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the Gentoo 2008 Beta 2 LiveCD. 2. Start CLI or GUI installer 3. Set up partitions. 4. Go to next step. Actual Results: The installer fails to mount partitions and exits with error. Expected Results: Should be able to go to the next step I'm using an HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop. I've attached the install.log and the output of fdisk -l. This is my first bug report. Hope I haven't missed anything. If you need more info I'll be happy to provide it.
Created attachment 153207 [details] the install.log from livecd-i686-installer-2008.0_beta2
Created attachment 153209 [details] the output of fdisk -l
That's a bit odd of a partition layout. If you don't have any data on those partitions, can you try recreating it so that there are no extended partitions, or at least the extended comes after the primary on the disk? I can't say that that's the cause, but it can't hurt to try. Also, can you attach /tmp/compile_output.log? It should have the error that mount spit out.
Created attachment 153223 [details] contents of /tmp/compile_output.log I've attached the /tmp/compile_output.log, although it doesn't seem to contain anything relevant (but maybe that's just me :D). Unfortunately /dev/sda5 is almost full and contains a lot of valuable data, so it would be difficult for me to move it around. That's the reason I put it there in the first place, so i can resize it without much fuss if I'm in need of space. I'll try this on a VM when I get a chance though.
Since you entered the local mounts information by hand, chances are that you entered something incorrectly. The output from the mount command shows that the syntax of the command was wrong. Did you add an additional local mounts entry and leave it all blank?
Hmmm, no, but now i found out where the problem is. In the mount points dialog, if you leave the 'Mount options' input field blank the mount goes OK. However if you try to give any options such as 'noatime' or even write 'defaults' yourself the mount will fail. I'm guessing that the -o parameter of the mount command isn't called correctly by the installer. I'm switching the severity to normal. Best regards, Ozzi
I was wrong. The crash occurs even if the 'Mount options' field is left blank but in this case it doesn't happen every time, the compile_output.log doesn't exist and instead there is an empty file named compile_output.log.failed.
The installer is deprecated.
