no root filesystem when trying to CREATE reiserFS partitions
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Colin Watson | ||
Bug Description
I am testing the Flight 7 liveCD installer right now. On a brand new hard drive, I wanted to set things like this:
/ as reiserFS, about 10gb
/home as reiserFS, about 60gb
and about 600mb of linux-swap
What happens is that the setup lets you THINK it created the partitions, but stops you later on with an error that there is no root filesystem (or something like that, I used the installer in French).
If you go a few steps back into the partitionner, you will then understand that the installer did NOT create and format your reiserfs partitions.
The ugly workaround I found is to go in system - administration - gnome partition editor... And create my partitions with it. After that, I just go a few steps back and forth in the installer, and it now recognizes the partitions. It is currently installing as I write this.
Can this be possibly fixed for dapper final? I can NOT imagine laptop users having to use EXT3 because they cannot figure out why reiserFS wont install. I dont want my laptop to start checking my filesystem every 30 mounts when Im in a hurry to power it up ;)
Thanks for any additional info you may have on this problem.
Note: the original reporter indicated the bug was in package 'espresso'; however, that package was not published in Ubuntu.
| J. Pablo Fernández (pupeno) wrote | #1 |
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #2 |
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in ubiquity: | |
| assignee: | nobody → kamion |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Fix Released |
I am also a user of ReiserFS that is very disappointed at the state of the installer regarding ReiserFS. In Dapper, it was possible to workaround it by creating the partitions by hand. In Edgy that is not even possible (it would complaint about not having a root filesystem even when there's a defined root filesystem, only that it is an already created and formated ReiserFS).
I had to install with the alternate CD, that worked.
I've found this bugs to be related (maybe all the same bug: support ReiserFS please): 42994, 44566, 49826.
Thank you.