ISO image not working on 32-bits system when booting from USB stick with multiple partition on the main disc

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ISO image not working on 32-bits system when booting from USB stick with multiple partition on the main disc #11

Closed Lawri-van-Buel closed 8 years ago

Lawri-van-Buel commented 8 years ago

It seems the installer makes some assumptions about the disc that are available.

for example, on my system the /dev/sda holds a few partions (swap,Ubuntu,Arch,home) it claims /dev/sdb for the possibly mounted SD-card and any USB-drive gets /dev/sdc and further.

but the installer / starter of the image can not handle a disc not beeing present and fails with a loop of "failure to read /dev/sdb"

SqyD commented 8 years ago

Not sure how you build your bootable stick. I've tested it by installing a grub2 in the MBR of the usb drive. Just booting in a persistent live environment on that stick works fine on my machine with a drive with 7 partitions.

So, to be clear: you should NOT run the installer on actual hardware. We don't want students to accidently whipe their disks. I've even removed the install feature from the desktop.

Lawri-van-Buel commented 8 years ago

Steps to reproduce

have 2 disc in the system (hdd or alike)
have the iso file copied to a usb stick using dd
boot from the stick. (Option 1 is auto install, 2 is run live and 3 is manual install)
choose any of the options.

This result about halfwAy of the process in a infinity loop while searching for the install disc on /dev/sdb

I suspect the install disc should be addressed through its UUID and not its variable mount location (the /dev/sd?)

SqyD commented 8 years ago

this is not a supported setup. closing