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ubiquity package

Installer will not accept seclected root partition

Bug #68520 reported by Fred_D on 2006-10-27

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #67130: mount points preparation locked - "No root file system". Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When installing Edgy from the live CD, when selecting mount locations for partitions, I get the error 'No root partition' selected even though a root partition is selected.

My partition scheme is
hda1 Not mounted (contains my current 6.06 install)
hda2 "extended"
hda3 "/" (reformat selected)
hda5 swap (reformat selected)
hda6 /myth
sda1 /myth/tv

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Fred_D (fdonelly) wrote on 2006-10-27:

Debug log from failed attempt. Edit (86.5 KiB, text/plain)

Had another go and it looks like it works, if I delete and recreate the destination partition.

I'll also attach a debug log from the failed attempt.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2006-10-27:

Thanks for your report. This appears to be the same as bug 67130.

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B. Joshua Rosen (bjrosen) wrote on 2007-02-22:

I'm seeing the same problem. I'm trying to do an install on an HP R3000Z (AMD64) laptop that currently has Fedora Core 5 and 6 as well as WinXP on it. I'm trying to replace FC5 with Ubuntu 6.10. I've selected the FC5 partition to use as / for Ubuntu and set the reformat box. I'm getting a "No root file system error". All Linux current Linux Partitions are EXT3. Here is df from FC6,

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 8130996 4549784 3161516 60% /
tmpfs 777648 0 777648 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda6 8130996 4223776 3487524 55% /fc5
/dev/hda8 57344508 48357656 6073868 89% /home