I hope I'm in the right place for this. If not, please move it and tell me where it should have gone.
Just for giggles, I downloaded and tried to install Boring AMD64 today. Used cfdisk to make /boot, /, /swap, /home. Told the installer where to put what, and it bombed out formatting and tuning the partitions. Tried a couple of times, same result. I went back through the process, and noticed that in the summary of changes before the install, / and /home showed up as going to be ext4, but /boot showed up as ".", apparently missing the filesystem option. bbqinstaller_log seemed to verify that, saying makefs was looking for two options and only found one.
If this is a known issue, I apologize, but I did do a search before I posted this and didn't find anything. Not having a separate /boot solved the issue and the install went flawless, but I'm just sending up a flare in case it's something that needs fixed before the next ISO's come out.
* I spoke too soon about the installer working. It bombed out again installing the boot-loader. bbq-installer log has a bunch of rsync errors, then says that grub-probe can't seek /dev/sda, which is where I told it to install the boot-loader. I'm going to try again with Spring2014.1
[edited with installer update]
BBQIinstaller Bug?
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We don't support installations in VirtualBox, VMWare, qemu or others. We ignore posts about WINE, PlayOnLinux, Steam and Skype. We don't support btrfs, lvm, UEFI, side-by-side installations with GPT or dualboot with anything newer than Windows XP.
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Re: BBQIinstaller Bug?
I think Bacon is in the process to rewrite the installer anyway.
Re: BBQIinstaller Bug?
This is a subtle hint that you should not use a boot partition. ;)
I can tell you how to fix the install script if you really want a boot partition, but you don't need one.
I don't know about the boot-loader problem you're having; I've never seen that. Please post more details if you have the same problem with Spring.
I can tell you how to fix the install script if you really want a boot partition, but you don't need one.
I don't know about the boot-loader problem you're having; I've never seen that. Please post more details if you have the same problem with Spring.
Re: BBQIinstaller Bug?
^ I don't normally use a boot partition. I just created one on a whim and it sank the installer in Boring. Never did get around the grub-probe failure. Not disastrous, as I have my wheezy netinstall as my workhorse.
The Spring install went without a hitch. /boot partition, grub-probe, everything worked as intended. I wouldn't know why there'd be a difference between stable and sid with regards to this, but there sure seems to be.
The Spring install went without a hitch. /boot partition, grub-probe, everything worked as intended. I wouldn't know why there'd be a difference between stable and sid with regards to this, but there sure seems to be.
Re: BBQIinstaller Bug?
This is a subtle hint to tell you to use sid and not stable. ;)
Seriously though; it's not the difference between stable and sid, at least for the boot partition. Spring has a slightly different version of bbqinstaller that is missing the boot partition bug.
I don't know anything about the grub stuff -- I've never seen that.
Seriously though; it's not the difference between stable and sid, at least for the boot partition. Spring has a slightly different version of bbqinstaller that is missing the boot partition bug.
I don't know anything about the grub stuff -- I've never seen that.
Re: BBQIinstaller Bug?
Who knew I had so many bad habits? The mouse, X.org, Wheezy...
Since I've already got Spring installed, I'll use it awhile. Maybe I'll never go back. ;)
Since I've already got Spring installed, I'll use it awhile. Maybe I'll never go back. ;)
Re: BBQIinstaller Bug?
^ our plan is working perfectly
Re: BBQIinstaller Bug?
^ XD
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Re: BBQIinstaller Bug?
good to see you got it sorted. Spring is good to build up with, if you need to at all.
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