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debian-installer package

can't mount partition from busybox or ash in installer

Bug #65103 reported by Felix Miata
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: debian-installer

27 Sept edgy

To reproduce:
1-"go back" to menu immediately on text installation startup and choose "execute a shell" (or, switch to tty2 busybox). See message "the hard disk file systems are mounted on 'target'".
2-make some mount point for the partition containing the installation iso file (e.g.
# mkdir /hda10
# ls -l /hda10
...
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 10 13:14 hda10
...)
3-mount the partition (e.g.
# ls -l /dev/hda10
brw-rw---- 1 root root 3, 10 Oct 10 13:13 /dev/hda10
# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda10 /hda10

Actual results:
1-/target does not exist in 'ls -l /'
2-"mount: Mounting /dev/hda10 on /hda120 failed: No such device"

Expected results:
1-/target exists, as the shell startup screen says it does
2-formatted ext3 partition /dev/hda10 is mounted and accessible on /hda10

Revision history for this message
Felix Miata (mrmazda) wrote :

that was supposed to read "...Mounting /dev/hda10 on /hda10 failed..."

Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

/target won't exist until you've passed the partitioning stage of the installer.

Did you run through the installer past hardware detection? If not, then disk devices may not be available.

Changed in debian-installer:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Felix Miata (mrmazda) wrote :

That was 6 months ago. I have no recollection. However, reading the original description 'To reproduce: 1-"go back" to menu immediately on text installation startup and choose "execute a shell" (or, switch to tty2 busybox). See message "the hard disk file systems are mounted on 'target'".' it would appear that devices must have existed at that point, or otherwise there shouldn't have been any message about "hard disk file systems ... mounted". I suppose as a consequence that "text installation startup" would have been intended to have meant post-partitioning.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for debian-installer (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

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