Laurentiu Pancescu wrote:
I got into some problems with partitioning. I chose Encrypted LVM in
Guided Partitioning, chose sda (the 250GB Hitachi drive) but when it
tried to create the LVM, it failed with sda5 busy, access denied. I
retried that installer step, same result. I restarted the netbook, the
same problem. The workaround is to drop into another console before the
partitioning step, and manually delete all partitions with fdisk; it
works without any problems after that. I think there is something about
the factory partitions that confuses the kernel or installer,
Many notebooks and netbooks have hidden partitions created by the
original installation, which contain software for things like special
hardware controllers, basic restoration of factory configurations, and
the like. When you re-partitioned, you probably noticed more partitions
than you expected. Looks like they stuck their little package in an
extended partition.
Bad news is that you blew away whatever software the manufacturer wanted
there, but that doesn't matter unless you wanted to keep the Windows
that the thing probably came with. It probably doesn't matter much even
if you do want to keep Windows.
--
David L. Johnson
Arguing with an engineer is like mud wrestling with a pig...
You soon find out the pig likes it!
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