Attempt to mount a filesystem with type ext3 ... at '/' failed

[gkaragoulis]

During installation I keep getting this error. The partitioner gets to 5% and just quits with that error message. I've read at a bunch of forums and bug reporting sites about this and nobody seems to have an answer. Anybody else have luck?

[gkaragoulis]

Ok so I was able to get past the error, even though I don't understand why. Here is what I did:

I booted to the live cd without installing, then tried to install by clicking the button on the desktop. However, before doing that I ran the command "/bin/update-dev", per someone's suggestion on another site I read. After running that command the install worked fine!

No ideas why that worked though...

[krosenqu]

Ok so I was able to get past the error, even though I don't understand why. Here is what I did:

I booted to the live cd without installing, then tried to install by clicking the button on the desktop. However, before doing that I ran the command "/bin/update-dev", per someone's suggestion on another site I read. After running that command the install worked fine!

No ideas why that worked though...


I received the same error when upgrading my Eeepc 900a with a 32GB super talent ssd. The error is attached as an image (sorry for the Droid camera phone pic).


I tried your method above but it didn't work for me (nothing appeared to happen). I've also using the install icon on the desktop with the eeebuntu release AND the latest 9.1 ubuntu release. Same issue with both.

Anybody have an idea of why this error is occurring or how to fix it? Do I have to mount the hard drive somehow? I can partition the hard drive however I like in partition manager but it doesn't get past this step when installing, even if I format the ssd to ext3 before I run the install.



HOLY COW. I just realized I'm posting this an EXACT YEAR TO DATE from your post! Sorry for the resurrection!

[krosenqu]

The solution was that whatever the first partition was always got curropted for some reason.

So I created a 256MB unpartitioned space at the beginning.

All is well now :)

[theaskanison]

Thank you krosenqu (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=917306) for adding to this thread. I was having this problem installing Ubuntu Remix on my son's Acer aspire one ZG5 until I tried your solution and it went pass this error message :p...to quit unexpectedly after 90% of the installation. :shock:

For some reason remix on my system was bugging out so I decided to install Ubuntu desktop 8.10 instead and it worked (after reading some forums and tweaking little things here and there). Now is upgrading to 9.04: 5 min remaining...I'm keeping my fingers cross!

[krosenqu]

Hopefully you get it working!

I kept having problems with updating Eeebuntu. It would crash every time I updated and I had to reinstall the operating system again. I eventually gave up and installed Windows 7 for now. I'm waiting for a new version of Eeebuntu to get released before I try Linux again.