Installing Edgy on existing SuSE partitions fails: No rootfs
Bug #71821 reported by
Gerd Bavendiek
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #67130: mount points preparation locked - "No root file system".
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
Hi,
I'm currently migrating some of my boxes from SuSE to Ubuntu. After selecting the old SuSE root partition as the new root partition the Ubuntu installer refused to continue, complaining "No root file system". This happened on two of my boxes. Thanks to strace being available on the Ubuntu Live System I found that the installer issued
file -s /dev/sdb7 # with sdb7 carrying the old SuSE root file system
Doing this manually I got something like
x86 boot sector, code offset 0x48
I finally found that I had to overwrite the old GRUB sector doing
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb7 count=1
which made file -s report
Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data
Now the installer continued quite fine.
Gerd
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| Gerd Bavendiek (gerd-bavendiek) wrote | #1 |
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| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #2 |
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Oops,
too late I found that this one is obviously well known as Bug Id 67130. Sorry !
Gerd