[Bug 42003] Re: no root file system and wrong partition list!

[Mikko Saarinen]

I can confirm this problem with Ubuntu 6.06 "Dapper Drake" - Beta 2 i386
Live CD.

This happened twice when I wanted manually edit the partition table.

1. Removed all partitions
2. Created three primary ext3 partitions in hda (about 20, 35 and 1.5 GB)
3. Set mountpoints to "/", "home" and "swap" (in this order)
    note: I changed the order of the devices in the list to hda, hdb and hdc (the list did not show all at first, and they were in the "wrong" order).
4. Clicked Install and got a warning "no root file system"

The third time I didn't delete the partitions (it seemed that they were
already looking like this from the previous attempts), but only made
sure that all mount points were noted (didn't change their order) and
the installation finished just fine.

But now I got an error while trying to Hibernate the machine:
[4296733.093000] swsusp: Cannot find swap device, try swapon -a.

This got me looking my /etc/fstab to check if swap was not mentioned,
but it was. The partition list looked odd, though:

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0

The output of sudo fdisk -l:

    Laite Käynn     Alku          Loppu    Lohkot   Id  Järjestelmä
/dev/hda1   *           1        7120    57191368+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2            7121        7296     1413720    5  Laajennettu
/dev/hda5            7121        7296     1413688+  82  Linux / Solaris heittovaihtotiedosto

The second one is extended and the last one is swap (sorry for the
Finnish language), but I doesn't recall making an extended partition!
And where is my home!

Tried to enable the swap anyway:

mikko at mini:/var/log$ sudo swapon -a
swapon: /dev/hda5: Virheellinen argumentti

It is saying that /dev/hda5 is a wrong argument, so I guess there is
_some minor_ problems still with this express install methods.

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no root file system
https://launchpad.net/bugs/42003