Ubiquity failed to mount /boot

[Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu)]

On Sun, March 29, 2009 19:00, Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu) 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
>

I was able to do a completely manual installation of grub on /dev/sda1
(/boot). It took me a couple of hours to figure out that this is (hd0,0)
for the livecd, but it's actually (hd2,0) when I'm booting into grub. I
needed the Super Grub Disk to find that out.

Still struggling with a few other issues. I'll google first and if needed,
I'll start a new thread on the list.

For me this case is closed. No need to file a bug report, because I was
doing something non-standard anyway.

-- 
Amedee