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NMigo

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Registered: 2012-05-03

Posts: 10

[Solved] Intall fails to detect partitions and set mountpoints

Hi, aparently this happens on certain partition configurations, but current snapshots (tried many different days and dual, net, i686, x86_64) have a problem where partitions are not correctly detected.  They appear repeateadly, and you cannot set mount points.

There are at least two bug reports about this:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29859
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29525

After getting some hints from the reports.  You workaround it by editing at the prompt and then going back to the install:

Edit /tmp/aif/aif-blockdata to something similar:

/dev/sda2 raw no_label swap;yes;no_mountpoint;target;no_opts;no_label;no_params
/dev/sda3 raw no_label ext4;yes;/;target;no_opts;no_label;no_params'

you can run fdisk -l before to be sure of your partitions (warning this sample will format partitions)

Hope it helps anyone!

raritan01

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Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 9

Re: [Solved] Intall fails to detect partitions and set mountpoints

I was banging my head against the wall till I read this. Thanks!