Public bug reported: Hi Guys,
I seem to have a problem during installation using preseed files + linuxcoe installation disc for Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) I have configured three partitions: /home, /, swap. The idea is when re-installations are nessaccary, to simply kill / and swap and leave /home intact for the new system. This works fine on some systems but gives "no root file system is specified" error on others during the installation - text only, no gui available. ALT+F4 gives - "No matching physical volumes found" and "No volume groups found" All systems tested are Dell as the company I work for standardized. All tests were with the same cd and same preseed files using parted v1.7.1. Libata module is used for the harddrive. I am trying to make the installation as unattended as possible. As soon as I remove the string specifying /home in the preseed file, I get the above error msg. If I leave the string, it leaves the original /home, and creates the new partitions - /home, /, swap eg 2x /home partitions. The startup disk I have comes from http://www.instalinux.com/ and I configured the preseed files to our server details. I have tried killing all partitions with fdisk and Partition magic, recreating the /home before installation, and even running it on a blank harddrive. It seems to not like some systems / hardware. Any ideas as to what I could try? We are going to roll out 7.04 and wait for the next LTS release so I have not tried this on 7.10. Thank you very much, Craig. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Parted does not want to re-use partitons using coelinux installer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183949 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
