Install failure, /dev/disk/by-uuid/8**** does not exist.

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:09:07 -0400, Alan_Dacey wrote:

>>Message: 3
>>Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:23:36 +0000 (UTC) From: Aart Koelewijn
>><aart at mtack.xs4all.nl> Subject: Install failure, 
>>/dev/disk/by-uuid/8**** does not exist. To:
>>ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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>>I had an old computer runnig 7.10 quite nicely.
>>
>>I upgraded it to 8.04, but when I had to reboot it, it failed me,
>>nothing
> 
>>happened anymore, a hardware (motherboard?) failure, I suppose.
>>
>>Now with bits and parts of this computer and an other old computer,
>>about
> 
>>the same age, both Pentium III I build something which I think should
>>work.
>>
>>I tried the live 8.04 cd, which worked nicely, so I proceded to install.
>>All seemed to go well, but at the end the install procedure broke off
>>and
> 
>>when I tried to boot from hard-disk I got "GRUB loading stage 1.5. 
>>Error
> 
>>15". In the /boot directory there is no grub subdirectory. The last 50
>>lines of /var/log/syslog are below, but what took my attention was the
>>line:
>>
>>Jun 13 13:21:00 ubuntu migration-assistant: error: /dev/disk/by-
>>uuid/8eddddba-dc57-4771-b1bf-015323dade22 does not exist.
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>Jun 13 13:21:18 ubuntu ubiquity[9590]:     install.run() Jun 13 13:21:18
>>ubuntu ubiquity[9590]:   File
> "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 405, in run
>>Jun 13 13:21:18 ubuntu ubiquity[9590]:     self.configure_ma() Jun 13
>>13:21:18 ubuntu ubiquity[9590]:   File
> "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1101, in configure_ma
>>Jun 13 13:21:18 ubuntu ubiquity[9590]:     raise
> InstallStepError("MigrationAssistantApply failed with code %d" % ret)
>>Jun 13 13:21:18 ubuntu ubiquity[9590]: InstallStepError:
> MigrationAssistantApply failed with code 2
>>Jun 13 13:21:18 ubuntu ubiquity[9590]: Jun 13 13:21:18 ubuntu last
>>message repeated 2 times Jun 13 13:41:53 ubuntu -- MARK --
> 
> 
> Aart,
> I have to ask the how-did-I-ever-miss-that questions.  Did you set up
> your master and
> slave drives on the correct connector on the IDE ribbon?  Did you set
> the jumper pins
> on the hard drives for a master & slave also?
> 
> 
> Alan Dacey
> GrokIt

Thank you Alan,
is I hardly ever play around with harware, this might be the problem. It 
is all old stuf, nu instructions lying around, so I just have to guess. 
I'm planning to replace one off the harddiscks, as I have a better one 
lying around, and will have a look at it then (if I can find what I have 
to look at). I just assumed that if both harddisks could be found at boot 
and by the life-cd things would be ok.

Aart