10.1 Official install fails after partition choice

cactux · 12-11-2004, 04:06 AM

Hello,

I just tried to install Mandrake 10.1 Official, but if fails after the choice of partitions.
My disks are already partitionned, and Mandrake 10.0 installed without problem on them.
Here is the error message :
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Le partitionnement a échoué : Point de
montage en double : none
===
Which in english should give something like that :
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Partitioning failed: Mount
point in double: none
===

Do you know what could be the problem?

Here is more information:

Code:

[root@localhost yann]# fdisk -l /dev/hde

Disque /dev/hde: 61.4 Go, 61492838400 octets
255 têtes, 63 secteurs/piste, 7476 cylindres
Unités = cylindres de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 octets

Périphérique Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hde1   *           2        5600    44973967+  83  Linux
/dev/hde2            5601        7476    15068970    5  Extended
/dev/hde5            5601        5729     1036161   82  Linux swap
/dev/hde6            5730        6312     4682916   83  Linux
/dev/hde7            6313        6895     4682916   83  Linux
/dev/hde8            6896        7476     4666851   83  Linux
[root@localhost yann]# fdisk -l /dev/hdf

Disque /dev/hdf: 81.9 Go, 81964302336 octets
255 têtes, 63 secteurs/piste, 9964 cylindres
Unités = cylindres de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 octets

Périphérique Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdf1               1         634     5092573+  83  Linux
/dev/hdf3             635        9964    74943225    5  Extended
/dev/hdf5             635        7473    54934236   83  Linux
/dev/hdf6            7474        7490      136521   82  Linux swap
/dev/hdf7            7491        8109     4972086   83  Linux
/dev/hdf8            8110        8728     4972086   83  Linux
/dev/hdf9            8729        9347     4972086   83  Linux
/dev/hdf10           9348        9964     4956021   83  Linux

Thanks for your help !
Yann

tredegar · 12-11-2004, 04:30 AM

Périphérique Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 2 5600 44973967+ 83 Linux

Why does your boot partition start at sector 2?
Maybe if you made it start at sector 1 it would work properly.

cactux · 12-11-2004, 06:02 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by tredegar
Périphérique Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 2 5600 44973967+ 83 Linux

Why does your boot partition start at sector 2?
Maybe if you made it start at sector 1 it would work properly.

It should work as it is.
This has never been a problem for Mandrake 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, nor Knoppix.

Yann

opjose · 12-11-2004, 06:58 AM

Yes it shouldn't matter.

Could it be that the installer doesn't know about your SATA drive?

cactux · 12-11-2004, 08:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by opjose
Could it be that the installer doesn't know about your SATA drive?

There is something strange about that.
With Mandrake 9.2, SATA was not recognised, so my 2 hard disks were hda and hdb.
When I installed Mandrake 10.0 (install, not upgrade) my 2 hard disks were recognised as hde and hdf. 9.2 was in kernel 2.4.x, while 10.0 was a 2.6.x.
The question here is why this Mandrake 10.1 fails to install were Mandrake 10.0 installed itself perfectly.
I checked the ISO image against its md5sum before burning the CD-ROM, it was ok.
Is there a way to check the burned CD-ROM ? (something similar to the Knoppix cheatcode "testcd")?
Can I check it with something like

Code:

cat /dev/hdh | md5sum

Thanks and best regards
Yann

J_Onyx29 · 12-11-2004, 09:06 AM

I am new to Mandrake Linux. I had difficulty getting a Mandrake 10.1 Community distro to boot to desktop, a lot of people are complaining. It appears a lot of boot difficulty stems from Mandrake's limited video card drivers. If your video card does not work with one of the few drivers included and assigned by Mandrake installer, you will get a grub or bash command line. I resolved my problem by selecting the safe boot option at the startup menu, typing "drakconf" on the command line and trial and error selecting different Graphic drivers and running "test." I finally picked on that returned a message asking me if I wanted "X' to load at startup. I punted and picked yes. On reboot, I got the KDE desktop and am off and running.
I think the problem is that Mandrake distro (unlike the new Suse 9.1 distro) installer does not work with many graphics card setups. While two Dell choices are included, a most important one is omitted. All of my Dell Computers have Dells integrated graphics\sound electronics on the motherboard. Many Dells come this way. Since Dell is the world's biggest computer maker and seller, you would think Mandrake staff would see to it that the installer can handle Dell's major graphics\sound hardware!
This is particularly important since Dell appears to work closely with Microsoft. Dell makes it clear on their website that they support (only?) Windows XP and they do not load PCs with Linux. That is, it does not behove a Dell Tech to provide consumer assistance with migrating a Dell to Linux.
In sum, if you have Mandrake 10.1 installed but boot to a command line, either reinstall and focus on trouble shooting the graphics drive "Do" and you stand a good chance of getting up and running.

opjose · 12-11-2004, 10:03 AM

J_Onyx29 :

That had absolutely nothing to do with this thread.

If you wish to expound upon this a new thread is probably called for...

cactux:

I doubt that this is directly a Mandrake issue, but rather caused by changes to the kernel modules.

Hopefully by now Mandrake has posted some errattas about SATA installations on their web site, although I haven't checked.