Ubiquity failed to mount /boot

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:00:15 +0200 (CEST)
"Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu)" <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Can Ubiquity handle /boot being on a different partition than / ?
> 
> I have 3 hard disks, 2 of 120GiB and one of 200 GiB.
> The first partition on each disk is 1 GiB, the rest is LVM.
> It is my intention to configure RAID1 for sda1+sdb1+sdc1, but not
> now. Now I only want to install /boot on sda1. When I try that,
> Ubiquity gives the following error and sends me back to the
> partitioner:
> 
> "The attempt to mount a file system with type ext2 in (yadda yadda
> yadda) at /boot failed"
> 
> 
> This is the partition info that you'll probably want to know:
> 
> root at ubuntu:~# fdisk -l
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xbb6dbb6d
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1               1         131     1052226   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2             132       24321   194306175   8e  Linux LVM
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00055ab5
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb2             132       14593   116166015   8e  Linux LVM
> 
> Disk /dev/sdc: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x000b526b
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdc2             132       14593   116166015   8e  Linux LVM
> 
> 
> root at ubuntu:~# lvs
>   LV       VG     Attr   LSize   Origin Snap%  Move Log Copy%  Convert
>   gentoo32 system -wi-a-  20,00G
>   home     system -wi-a- 100,00G
>   root     system -wi-a-  50,00G
>   swap     system -wi-ao   6,00G
>   ubuntu64 system -wi-a-  20,00G
> 

Which image is this? I believe what you want to do is possible with the
alternate install cd. The desktop-cd has issues with a separate /boot
partition, I think.

You report a bug on this, since it should be possible and you have all
the information.
 
Good luck,

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