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

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:05:32 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:

> Aart Koelewijn wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> I tried this a number of times with somewhat different hd parameters,
>> but always got the same result. I also tried to install 7.10, which was
>> originally installed on these computers, but again the same result.
>>
>> The computer has a 450 MHz Pentium III, about 750 MB ram and 2
>> harddisks, one of 6.5 GB which I use as root and one of about 14 GB
>> which is used as /home and /swap and on which I once also tried to
>> install /boot. The other times /boot was not in a separate partition. I
>>  did  not format   /home, but did format all the other partitions.
> 
> I would disconnect the second disk (with swap and /home) and then try to
> install again. Use manual partitioning and select to only create the /
> partition without swap (if possible). You have enough RAM so it should
> work without swap. I would expect that the installation now will be
> complete including boot loader.
> 
> Then if you can boot from the new installation, connect the second hard
> disk. I suppose, your /home partition is already set up from your
> previous installation attempts. Then modify /etc/fstab and add the /home
> partition. If you don't know how to do it, please post the output of the
> command
> 
> ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
> 
> and the contents of your /etc/fstab file. After modifying the fstab use
> the command
> 
> sudo mount -a
> 
> and check that the /home partiton is actually mounted.
> 
> 
> Nils

Thank you for your suggestions Nils, they look very usefull. The /home 
partition was indeed already set up, so I tried to save that, but now I'm 
in the deep already I decided to go for it all the way, replace the disk 
with the root patition by a not as old much bigger one, use that for a 
new home partition and use the one where I now have the /home partition 
as the new root. I hope I can get all the bits and pieces installed 
right, because for me this is the first time I fiddle so much with all 
the hardware.

As I'm working on a computer which has about the same set up I want to 
create on the other one, I can use the /etc/fstab here as an example.

I'll let the list know how it all ends up.

Aart