stamasd
May 3rd, 2008, 05:58 PM
I'm trying to install 8.04LTS on one of my hard drives. I have a partition already made up, it's /dev/sda2. It used to have an old installation of Slackware which I have just wiped out and reformatted (reiserfs - just because the author is in jail doesn't mean we should kick out a perfectly good filesystem). The installer goes through steps 1 to 7, at step 4 I choose "manual" and select the appropriate partition for root, then at step 7 in "advanced" I stop it from installing a bootloader because I want to integrate it manually in my multiboot setup later. Then select "install", and it does something briefly then quits without actually installing anything. I've tried it 3 times so far, and with the same result. I think it may be an installer bug. /dev/sda2 is left pristine, no files are copied to it even though I've selected it as root.
Edit: dmesg doesn't help, the last messages are just related to partitioning of sda2:
[ 1747.580152] ReiserFS: sda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
[ 1747.580169] ReiserFS: sda2: using ordered data mode
[ 1747.589790] ReiserFS: sda2: journal params: device sda2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
[ 1747.590172] ReiserFS: sda2: checking transaction log (sda2)
[ 1747.590799] ReiserFS: sda2: Using r5 hash to sort names
[ 1747.838323] ReiserFS: sda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
[ 1747.838341] ReiserFS: sda2: using ordered data mode
[ 1747.847991] ReiserFS: sda2: journal params: device sda2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
[ 1747.848380] ReiserFS: sda2: checking transaction log (sda2)
[ 1747.849053] ReiserFS: sda2: Using r5 hash to sort names
Edit: dmesg doesn't help, the last messages are just related to partitioning of sda2:
[ 1747.580152] ReiserFS: sda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
[ 1747.580169] ReiserFS: sda2: using ordered data mode
[ 1747.589790] ReiserFS: sda2: journal params: device sda2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
[ 1747.590172] ReiserFS: sda2: checking transaction log (sda2)
[ 1747.590799] ReiserFS: sda2: Using r5 hash to sort names
[ 1747.838323] ReiserFS: sda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
[ 1747.838341] ReiserFS: sda2: using ordered data mode
[ 1747.847991] ReiserFS: sda2: journal params: device sda2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
[ 1747.848380] ReiserFS: sda2: checking transaction log (sda2)
[ 1747.849053] ReiserFS: sda2: Using r5 hash to sort names