Ubuntu live media installer cannot find volumes, Fedora live does

[kjetilbmoe]

Ubuntu community,

I have a computer running Red hat (some 2007 old version), and would like to install a fresh 64bit Ubuntu 10.10 in addition to this. The live ubuntu usb installer launches perfectly - but now it cannot find a single harddrive (there are 2, separate ones). This troubles me. I would like to change the partitions a bit upon installing.

The system boots to Red hat just fine when not using the Ubuntu usb, and is able to find all the disks. Running a live Fedora USB discovers the drives, but is not able to "read" or mount them properly - I get "daemon is inhibited".

The drives seems to be formatted as ext3.

How do I proceed to install Ubuntu?

[oldfred]

It may be how drives are formated or ?

To see what is where:
Boot Info Script courtesy of forum member meierfra
Page with instructions and download:
http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/
Paste results.txt, then highlight entire file and click on # in edit panel(code tags) to make it easier to read.
Or You can generate the tags first by pressing the # icon in the post's menu and then paste the contents between the generated [ code] here [ /code] tags.

I would probably download the newest gparted liveCD and see if that lets me create the partitions.

[kjetilbmoe]

Here you go. I couldn't see any obvious errors though...




Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010

============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================

=> Grub 0.93 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 47755 on
boot drive #1 for the stage2 file. A stage2 file is at this location on
/dev/sda. Stage2 looks on partition #1 for /grub/grub.conf.
=> Grub is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb and looks at sector 91201 on
boot drive #1 for the stage2 file, but no stage2 files can be found at
this location.
=> Syslinux is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdc

sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ext3
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs: /grub/menu.lst /grub/grub.conf

sda2: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ext3
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS
release 3 (Taroon Update 5) Kernel on an
Boot files/dirs: /etc/fstab

sda3: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: swap
Boot sector type: Unknown
Boot sector info:

sdb1: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ext3
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:

sdc1: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Fat32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:

=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================

Drive: sda ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___

Disk /dev/sda: 73.4 GB, 73407865856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders, total 143374738 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Partition Boot Start End Size Id System

/dev/sda1 * 63 208,844 208,782 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 208,845 126,977,759 126,768,915 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 126,977,760 143,364,059 16,386,300 82 Linux swap / Solaris


Drive: sdb ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___

Disk /dev/sdb: 146.8 GB, 146815737856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17849 cylinders, total 286749488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Partition Boot Start End Size Id System

/dev/sdb1 * 63 286,744,184 286,744,122 83 Linux


Drive: sdc ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___

Disk /dev/sdc: 4007 MB, 4007657472 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 487 cylinders, total 7827456 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Partition Boot Start End Size Id System

/dev/sdc1 * 63 7,823,654 7,823,592 b W95 FAT32


blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________

Device UUID TYPE LABEL

/dev/loop0 squashfs
/dev/loop2 squashfs
/dev/loop3 48d0835e-93a9-42e3-a057-441099473325 ext4 Fedora-13-i686-L
/dev/loop4 DM_snapshot_cow
/dev/mapper/live-osimg-min 48d0835e-93a9-42e3-a057-441099473325 ext4 Fedora-13-i686-L
/dev/mapper/live-rw 48d0835e-93a9-42e3-a057-441099473325 ext4 Fedora-13-i686-L
/dev/sda1 9a73135e-3e10-417d-abe5-0f93d695d2a5 ext3 /boot
/dev/sda2 d9c22739-9cd3-43d0-85ec-785b1a5f7407 ext3 /
/dev/sda3 swap
/dev/sda: PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdb1 601295e7-d585-47ef-899b-51d3c2c55926 ext3 /disk1
/dev/sdb: PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdc1 8870-099A vfat T1
/dev/sdc: PTTYPE="dos"

=============================== "ls -R /dev/mapper/" output: ===============================
/dev/mapper:
control
live-osimg-min
live-rw

============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================

Device Mount_Point Type Options

/dev/mapper/live-rw / ext4 (rw,noatime)
/dev/sdc1 /media/T1 vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=500,gid=500,sh ortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)


============================= sda1/grub/grub.conf: =============================

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (2.4.21-32.ELsmp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-32.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-32.ELsmp.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS-up (2.4.21-32.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-32.EL ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-32.EL.img

=================== sda1: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================


.0GB: grub/grub.conf
.0GB: grub/menu.lst
.0GB: grub/stage2
.0GB: initrd-2.4.21-32.EL.img
.0GB: initrd-2.4.21-32.ELsmp.img
.0GB: vmlinuz-2.4.21-32.EL
.0GB: vmlinuz-2.4.21-32.ELsmp

=============================== sda2/etc/fstab: ===============================

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
LABEL=/disk1 /disk1 ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
=========================== Unknown MBRs/Boot Sectors/etc =======================

Unknown BootLoader on sda3

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00000200


=============================== StdErr Messages: ===============================

No volume groups found
mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically

[oldfred]

If you run gparted from the Ubuntu liveCD can you see partitions. You may have to swapoff on the swap partition as that often is auto mounted.

[kjetilbmoe]

I managed to create a partition with Fedora live usb - though it still does not show up in Ubuntu installer. Neither in the alternate installer.

The problem may be related to SCSI disks, and as I search for issues on this, it seems to have been a problem for quite a number of people lately. Though I cannot find any specific solution to this.

[sikander3786]

If there is an option in the Bios, switching HDD mode to ahci or compatible might help.