Install problems with partitions (gui)

remix · l33t Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 797 Location: hawaii

i'm trying to help my friend install gentoo over the phone... he's having trouble with an install profile we made the other night.

when he starts the install, it instantly fails with "cannot find the partition that the new one refers to"

i'm guessing when partitioning probably the first ext2 partition /boot

he also has /dev/sda2 as windows... so currently he has

/dev/sda2 windows
/dev/sda5 linux

that's all... no /dev/sda1

so i tell him to remove all the linux partitions we made the night before, then recreate them.... the install fails again.

anyone know why? or how to remedy this..

tia
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mpicklesimer · n00b Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 59 Location: Boston, MA

I've found. Have your friend open up a terminal and run

martin20450 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 91

I'd not suggest deleting all partitions if your friend has any data he wants to save!

mpicklesimer · n00b Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 59 Location: Boston, MA

This is true. I apologize, I was working on the assumption that this was a blank hard drive. Forgive me, I'm low on sleep.
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RR64 · n00b Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 34

Hi, this is my install Remix is helping me with. When I type cfdisk /dev/sda, this is what I get:

cfdisk 2.12r

Disk Drive: /dev/sda
Size: 320072933376 bytes, 320.0 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 38913

Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pri/Log Free Space 10487.24
sda5 NC Logical Linux ext2 41981.83
Pri/Log Free Space 267601.26

[ Help ] [ New ] [ Print ] [ Quit ] [ Units ]

I'd like to keep my windows partions (one for os and the other for aps). I tried installing gentoo once before this error, and it crashed due to an unstable overclock.

BTW, here is the error I'm getting:

Exception received:
MissingPartitionsError :FATAL: partition: Cannot find the existing partition that a new one refers to. This is not a bug. This is in fact your (the user's) fault. You should not reuse the installprofile.xml from a previous install that started the partitioning step.
Please submit a bug report (after searching to make sure it's not a known issue and verifying you didn't do something stupid) with the contents of /var/log/installer.log.failed, /tmp/installprofile.xml, the last ~50 lines of /tmp/compile_output.log, and the version of the installer you used (release or CVS snapshot w/ date)

Thanks for all the help...I'm still at a lost as what to do.
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64bit OS gentoo-2.6.12-r9

Newsetup to be posted as soon as its running

mpicklesimer · n00b Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 59 Location: Boston, MA

I don't see a Windows partition on this drive. According to what's here, I see about 10GB of free space, 42GB of a Logical partition formatted as ext2, followed by another 267GB of free space. It appears that you are setting up this drive with logical partitions. I've had mixed success with this. Again, I recommend the scheme I described above, but make sure you select Primary as the partition type.If you like, you can PM me and I'd be happy to assist with an install firsthand.
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