[SOLVED] Academy/bbqinstaller: mke2fs exits with error.
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 5:31 pm
Hi! I'm new to BBQ (posted over in the introductions a few minutes ago.) I'm pretty inexperienced with this whole thing; I've succeeded in dual-booting Windows and Ubuntu once upon a time with the graphical version of gparted and some very specific instructions. This is my first time using the parted CLI.
Scenario: I just got an old PC from a relative, and I'm trying to completely erase a drive with a Windows 7 installation. I haven't formatted it previously; is that going to give parted trouble?
I'm trying to install Academy via live usb as instructed here.
I ran as directed.
The drive is 320GB. This is my best attempt, given what I've been able to read online (e.g. on ArchWiki,) for setting up the partition in parted:
Then, I checked with cfdisk. Looks as expected.
I assigned the bootloader to /dev/sda.
Other assignments are done as specified above.
I read online that it was okay to mark ext2 in parted, then use ext3/ext4. I used ext4 for /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3. Not sure if that's an issue.
I didn't encrypt any drives.
Everything goes fine until /dev/sda3. When installing file system to /dev/sda3, fubar.
Log:
I don't really know enough to have any idea where I could have gone wrong, apart from possibilities like "I used the wrong extensions" or "I should have formatted first" or "I didn't handle the unmounting correctly" or something similarly vague. I haven't included any specs, but I can hunt them down if they'll help. Any ideas what I could try next? Any input is appreciated.
Scenario: I just got an old PC from a relative, and I'm trying to completely erase a drive with a Windows 7 installation. I haven't formatted it previously; is that going to give parted trouble?
I'm trying to install Academy via live usb as instructed here.
I ran
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sudo bbqinstaller
The drive is 320GB. This is my best attempt, given what I've been able to read online (e.g. on ArchWiki,) for setting up the partition in parted:
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(Remove existing partitions)
mklabel msdos
mkpart primary ext2 0GB 500MB // /dev/sda1 for boot
mkpart primary ext2 500MB 20GB // /dev/sda2 for OS
mkpart primary ext2 20GB -2GB // /dev/sda3 for /home
mkpart primary linux-swap(v1) -2GB 320GB // swap, to be mounted later.
set 1 boot on
quit
I assigned the bootloader to /dev/sda.
Other assignments are done as specified above.
I read online that it was okay to mark ext2 in parted, then use ext3/ext4. I used ext4 for /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3. Not sure if that's an issue.
I didn't encrypt any drives.
Everything goes fine until /dev/sda3. When installing file system to /dev/sda3, fubar.
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tune2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
Setting reserved blocks count to 10000
[ 6456.400939] EXT4-fs (sda3): mounted filesys[b]em with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Exit due to error: 1
See /var/log/bbqinstaller_error.log for details.
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Error: Expected 2 arguments, found only 1.
Use --help to list options.
mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
Usage: mke2fs (etc etc, usage from man.)