Hello Graham,

Graham Lee <gra...@iamleeg.com> skribis:

> To recap, I’m choosing the guided partition scheme, with everything in a 
> single partition. The installer proposes a reasonable scheme: it keeps my EFI 
> partition, then a big e4fs, then a Linux swap partition.
> I accept that, and go through connecting to a network, setting root password, 
> adding a user, and choosing desktop and daemon packages. Then the next error.
>
>> In procedure mount: mount “/dev/sda1” on “/mnt/boot/efi”: No such device
>
> Indeed if I press OK and rerun to the installer, then the next time it gets 
> to the partition page it won’t see the SSD. It doesn’t get detected again 
> until a reboot.
>
> The SSD is Samsung SSD PM871 mSATA 256GB

So IIUC, the SSD is initially detected correctly, which allows you to
partition it, but later on /dev/sda1 “disappears”, right?

Could it be that “/dev/sda1” is actually the wrong device name?  What
does ‘mount’ and ‘fdisk -l /dev/sda’ show, once you’ve got the error
message?

Thanks,
Ludo’.



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