marvin
Hello,
went well with glibc update. no more password loop
however, this was restart of previous installation and I got stuck on the syslinux installation after remounting /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot and /dev/sda3 /mnt:
I checked //mnt and /mnt/boot for the files all ok
I selected option 1 (default)
:: Installing bootloader: syslinux
Error: /boot/syslinux is empty!
Is /boot mounted?
::Maybe the partition name in the root parameter needs to be replaced.
::Be sure to point the root partition in the line APPEND
:: Do you want to edit syslinux.cfg [y|n]
y
this causes another error:
Cannot open /mnt/boot/syslinux.cfg for reading
So what to do now?
restart installation from the beginning?
thank you
eric
weird, i think you have mounted your partitions with wrong way.
You need first to mount /dev/sda3 in /mnt(assuming that sda3 is for your / partition) and you mount /dev/sda1 in /mnt/boot. If you do the contrary you will retrieve an empty /mnt/boot directory.
Well, to be clear : first, format and mount /dev/sda3 in /mnt, create /mnt/{boot,home} directory, format (with ext2 format) and mount /dev/sda1 in /mnt/boot.
Make the same for all your partition that you want as home, var/cache etc..
If you haven't made this mistake, yeah, restart the installation from the beginning.
Don't hesitate to ask me if you got trouble again, i'm here to help people :)
Amélie
After completing the steps for an installation, it says in the following boot process after a restart:
ERROR: Boot device mounted successfully, but /sbin/init/ does not exist.
Bailing out, you're on your own. Good luck.
eric
@ amelie : please post your /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg configuration file, thanks. or try to catch me on irc channel
Amélie
Thank you for the kind offer!
Very likely I'm the bug here, with installing on /sdb (since there already is an /sda SSD). Best I will try again.
mandog
Are you using sda/sdb or are you using UUID for partition identification
Follow this guide its near the bottom 18 if you are not using UUID as sata SSD drives don't use sda boot order.