isotesting

[Nio Wiklund]

Den 2015-10-31 kl. 16:02, skrev Nio Wiklund:
> Den 2015-10-31 kl. 15:54, skrev Ian Bruntlett:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> NetBook used for testing: Samsung NC10, 32 bit
>> Laptop used for emails etc: lenovo ThinkPad T420, 64 bit.
>>
>> I've attempted to install and run Xenial Xerus 20151030 on my Samsung
>> NC10 NetBook.
>>
>> Installation media - USB flash drive.
>> Tried (twice) to use GPartEd (to wipe the drive) and Startup Disc
>> Creator. Files copied across OK, SDC failed whilst trying to install the
>> boot files.
>> Tried using GPartEd and UNetBootIn and it worked fine.
>>
>> Install.
>> Pretty much went OK.
>>
>> Booting. Failed with this error message (hope I get the details right, I
>> wrote it down in a log book).
>> fsck from util-linux 2.27
>> /dev/sda5 clean 120460 / 9527296 files, 1295994 / 38095703 blocks
>> [5.087921] systemd[1]: /etc/mtab is not a symlink or not pointing to
>> /proc/self/mounts This is not supported anymore. Please replace
>> /etc/mtab with a symlink to /proc/self/mount <-- could be "mounts"
>> [5.088444] systemd[1]:Freezing execution
>>
>> BW,
>>
>>
>> Ian
>>
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>>
>>
> 
> Hi Ian,
> 
> I think you were hit by bug #1499746 in the Startup Disk Creator.
> Unetbootin and mkusb work.
> 
> And then you were hit by bug #1511376, which Phill and I have discussed
> how to work around today. I think you can try 'my recipe',
> -----
> Running in a *real* computer I booted from the install pendrive, changed
> directory to the mounted partition of the installed system and ran
> 
> sudo ln -sf /proc/self/mounts etc/mtab
> 
> (ln {space} -sf and no slash before etc works in this case)
> -----
> 
> Best regards
> Nio

Hi again,

- Bug #1499746 in the SDC if you installed from 15.10. If you installed
from an earlier version or from another architecture (64-bit ---> 32-bit
or vice versa), there are other bugs that make it hard to use the SDC.

Best regards
Nio