On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 11:26:48PM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote: > Hello, > I wish to know if anyone has had issues installing Devuan Ascii Beta > 2.0.0 with cryptsetup partitions on 32 bit systems using the graphical > install. I did today, and when I got to defining the partitioning and > filesystem layout, I set: > > /dev/sda1 -> ext4 -> /boot > /dev/sda2 -> sda2_crypt -> ext4 -> / > /dev/sda3 -> sda3_crypt -> ext4 -> /usr > /dev/sda5 -> sda5_crypt -> ext4 -> /home > /dev/sda6 -> sda6_crypt -> swap > > So far, so good. However, when I clicked on the button to finalize the > layout, format che crypted partitions ant mount them for the installation to > begin, I got the error that sda2_crypt failed to be mounted on /. I tried > several times and I always got the same error. The log console (tty8?) did > not show anything relevant, and neither did dmesg. > I opened a terminal, I checked that the devices in /dev/mapper did exist. > I formatted them by hand with mkfs.ext4 and I could mount > /dev/mapper/sda2_crypt on /target (I also tried to mount it on another > directory under /, but I cannot remember it's name; maybe /system?). No joy: > the error popped up again and the installer would not allow me to go ahead. > > I'd like to know if it's it a known problem with the installer. Of course, > I'd like someone to propose a workaround, something that could be done > on the terminal to manually format and install the crypted partitions, skip > the disk setup step and go ahead with the installation. > >
Hi Alessandro, thanks a lot for your report. It would be great to have the /var/log/syslog created by d-i at install time. That would help debugging the issue, maybe. My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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