Install Arch Linux lenovo e330 only [SOLVED]

maxarsys · 2013-10-29 13:50:56

Hello,

I am starting a second install of Arch Linux on a Lenovo Laptop E330 13.3" Windows 8 I3-3110 NZSE9IV *(spec 2.4 Ghz Intel Core i3-3110M CPU, Intel HD graphic 4000, 500GB 7200RPM 4GB upgraded to 8GB DDR3 EEE)

I disabled in the BIOS the secure boot.

I m now partitionning the harddrive with cgdisk. I want to partition only with Linux Arch. My goad is to have three partitions / for root /home and /boot. I want to parition the /root and /home in ext4 and /boot in ext2. So I delelted all the partitions that were before including the EFi partition and started to parition the new ones. I chosed Write in the Ncurse interface of cgdisk and I got the following error : Problem Saving data ! Your parition may be damaged ! "I quited rebooted again using the USB hardrive with Arch Linux on it, and went back to cgdisk. I can see the paritition I made on /dev/sda but when I want to write the same parition scheme i get the same error.

I m wondering if it s something that I should pay attention to or not, before I continue to install Arch.

Thanks for your help

Last edited by maxarsys (2013-10-30 16:15:23)

Trilby · 2013-10-29 14:25:44

maxarsys wrote:

I removed all partition present on disk, and tried to create 3 new partition ...

Did you create a new partition table first? If not, you may be left with the remnants of the Win8 partition table. I don't know much about how M.S. is doing things now, but I wouldn't not be very surprised if they had some atypical partition table.

maxarsys · 2013-10-29 14:37:29

How do i create a new partition table ? With cgdisk as well ?

EDIT : I am having a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/partitioning I had to use gdisk first ot overwrite existing parition scheme and then went back to cgdisk and now no more error thank you for the hint.

Last edited by maxarsys (2013-10-29 14:50:50)

Trilby · 2013-10-29 16:54:53

Glad it worked. I suspect cgdisk should also be able to create new partition tables, but I've always just used fdisk or gdisk so I don't know the right commands or menu options for the c[fg]disk tools. If this is working now, please edit your first post to prepend [SOLVED] to the title.

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#1 2013-10-29 13:50:56

Install Arch Linux lenovo e330 only [SOLVED]

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Re: Install Arch Linux lenovo e330 only [SOLVED]

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Re: Install Arch Linux lenovo e330 only [SOLVED]

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Re: Install Arch Linux lenovo e330 only [SOLVED]

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