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Mason Whitaker
May 17th, 2009, 02:48 AM
Trying to install Ubuntu on my Dell Inspiron 1525, but I keep getting an error message stating "No Root File System Is Detected".

Any thoughts? O_o

taurus
May 17th, 2009, 02:49 AM
Did you do the Manual partition? How did you install it?

Mason Whitaker
May 17th, 2009, 02:54 AM
Just the regular Install application on the Live CD

taurus
May 17th, 2009, 02:56 AM
When you get to the partition screen, which option did you pick? Are you planning to install Ubuntu along-side windows (dualboot)?

Mason Whitaker
May 17th, 2009, 03:02 AM
In chronological order...

> Opened Install Application on LiveCD Desktop
> English Automatically Selected, Forwarded
> America Automatically Selected, Forwarded
> Keyboard Output USA Automatically Selected, Forwarded
> Starting up Partitioner...
> Blank space where partitions are to be shown
> Forwarded anyways
> Message, "No Root File System Is Defined. Please Correct This From The Partitioning Menu"

taurus
May 17th, 2009, 03:06 AM
It means the installer couldn't detect your harddrive. Open a terminal and post the output of this command.

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

sudo fdisk -l
That would be a lower case letter L, not number 1.

Is there anything (like windows) on that harddrive?

Mason Whitaker
May 17th, 2009, 03:08 AM
Terminal Command Results:
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000080

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 14594 117218304 7 HPFS/NTFS


Is there anything (like windows) on that harddrive?Windows Vista Ultimate, would that be the cause of the problem? If so, how would I go about deleting Vista from my harddive?

taurus
May 17th, 2009, 03:14 AM
Do you want to install Ubuntu on the harddrive, using the whole disk, wiping out windows?

Mason Whitaker
May 17th, 2009, 03:16 AM
Do you want to install Ubuntu on the harddrive, using the whole disk, wiping out windows?Of Course :popcorn:

Hobgoblin
May 17th, 2009, 03:21 AM
Start the partition manager manually and delete the windows partition, then try the install again.

Mason Whitaker
May 17th, 2009, 03:27 AM
GParted isn't letting me edit my /dev/sda1 entry O_o

taurus
May 17th, 2009, 03:30 AM
Post the screenshot (Applications -> Accessories -> Take Screenshot) of gparted.

Otherwise, use gparted to delete /dev/sda1. Then, create a new partition, /dev/sda1, that takes up the whole harddrive and format it to ext3. Save it and run the installer again.

Mason Whitaker
May 17th, 2009, 03:34 AM
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/4903/screenshotfnk.png

There you go kind sirs

taurus
May 17th, 2009, 03:39 AM
You have /dev/sda1 mounted to /cdrom! What's the output of this command from a terminal?


df -h

Mason Whitaker
May 17th, 2009, 03:42 AM
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 490M 2.7M 487M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile
tmpfs 490M 2.7M 487M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile
tmpfs 490M 0 490M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 490M 108K 490M 1% /var/run
varlock 490M 4.0K 490M 1% /var/lock
udev 490M 148K 490M 1% /dev
tmpfs 490M 600K 490M 1% /dev/shm
rootfs 490M 54M 436M 11% /
/dev/sda1 112G 39G 74G 35% /cdrom
/dev/loop0 674M 674M 0 100% /rofs
tmpfs 490M 156K 490M 1% /tmp

taurus
May 17th, 2009, 03:43 AM
How about if you unmount /dev/sda1 first and then run the installer again.


sudo umount /dev/sda1

Mason Whitaker
May 17th, 2009, 03:48 AM
Couldn't unmount...

umount: /cdrom: device is busy.
(In some cases useful info about processes that use
the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))

taurus
May 17th, 2009, 03:49 AM
Did you boot Ubuntu from a CD or did you run it from windows?

Mason Whitaker
May 17th, 2009, 03:51 AM
I used unetbootin, but I didn't think that would cause any problems o_O