| Summary: | Gentoo fails to install from LiveCD on qemu 0.9.1 on gNewSense | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Release Media | Reporter: | Matt Lee <mattl> |
| Component: | Installer | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Installer <gli-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NEEDINFO | ||
| Severity: | major | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Can you attach /tmp/compile_output.log.failed? That should have the actual error that `mount` spewed out. Reopen if you can provide the requested information |
gentoo failed to install due to its inability to mount a partition. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the CD image in qemu with the following:- 'qemu -m 512 -hda gentoo.img -cdrom livecd.iso -boot d' - gentoo.img is a blank, 10G image created with 'qemu-img create gentoo.img 10G' 2. get to the desktop, double click the installer. 3. click thru, ask installer to automatically partition my disk 4. after the mounts appear, click next. 5. a box appears in the top left of the screen with some progress bar for a split second. Actual Results: i'm asked to file a bug. Expected Results: installed gentoo :) installer dies and tells me to file a bug. GLI: February 25 2008 06:00:37 - Gentoo Linux Installer version 0.5.4 GLI: February 25 2008 06:02:02 - Exception received during 'Mount local partitions': MountError :FATAL: mount_local_partitions: Could not mount a partition GLI: February 25 2008 06:02:02 - Traceback (most recent call last): GLI: February 25 2008 06:02:02 - File "/opt/installer/GLIClientController.py", line 122, in run func() GLI: February 25 2008 06:02:02 - File "/opt/installer/GLIArchitectureTemplate.py", line 348, in mount_local_partitions raise GLIException("MountError", 'fatal','mount_local_partitions','Could not mount a partition') GLI: February 25 2008 06:02:02 - GLIException: MountError :FATAL: mount_local_partitions: Could not mount a partition