Partitioning Failure When Installing Corecdx 5.5 [Solved]

[maalo]

Hello

I've been trying to install Corecdx 5.5 It fails with the partitioning formatting.. I must say that I've also tried to install Sabayon Gnome and Kfce and it always fails in the same thing. Installing other distros I don't have this problem. But I like Sabayon and I don't give up trying.

During the startup I press F5, but there is not option for dodmraid disabled as the wiki says, at least in Corecdx 5.5 -

What else can I do? I need some help.

Thank you.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Hi, and welcome to SL. I sometimes find that the Installer is unable to partition, so, as a 'work around', I use another LiveCD or LiveDVD with GParted on it to do the job, and then boot the SL LiveCD/DVD and run the Installer. It's not ideal, but the approach of creating the partitions before running the Installer works for me. I have also tried using the KDE Partition Manager instead of GParted, but it is much less mature than GParted and sometimes fails to partition or, inexplicably, appears to create the partitions correctly but the Installer cannot install using them. So I stick to GParted.

[raman]

I do the same. I'm creating partitions from external programs, LiveCDs, USB or special CD editions like Hiren's Boot CD, which have all needed tools to repair, reconfigure or partition create.
It's very important to create partitions tree in accordance with the rules.

[micia]

Hi, and welcome to SL. I sometimes find that the Installer is unable to partition, so, as a 'work around', I use another LiveCD or LiveDVD with GParted on it to do the job, and then boot the SL LiveCD/DVD and run the Installer. It's not ideal, but the approach of creating the partitions before running the Installer works for me. I have also tried using the KDE Partition Manager instead of GParted, but it is much less mature than GParted and sometimes fails to partition or, inexplicably, appears to create the partitions correctly but the Installer cannot install using them. So I stick to GParted.

I use the same method, but I use the GParted that comes with the Sabayon Live disc, I usually open up a console and, if I am installing the KDE4 version, I run:

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kdesu gparted


if I am installing the Gnome/XFCE/LXDE/whatever else version, I run:

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gksu gparted


GParted is often included in the Live mediums from Sabayon, it is just not visible in the menus since it is a root application.

After partitioning with GParted I launch the Sabayon installer and I use the newly created partitions, instead of letting it create ones.

Edit I just checked and in the Core/Spin releases GParted is not included by default, what a shame
... And in the KDE4 release there is just the KDE4 partition manager...

[Fitzcarraldo]

GParted is not on the CoreCDX LiveCD.

[micia]

Yes, I just checked it myself, I was editing my previous message when you clarified it

[maalo]

Thanks for the answers and for the welcome.
I've been trying to install corecdx over the distro I've already installed, thinking that Sabayon would use these partitions already made. Maybe it doesn't work in that way.

I don't know if I understand well. The distro I've installed has gparted. But the disk has partitions already there So, erase and new partitions with a live cd? My next read is the gparted manual..

[wolfden]

You should be able to point to existing partitions, I do that all the time. Please make sure you check the md5sum of the iso you downloaded. What is the error when it fails? What file system?

[Fitzcarraldo]

You should be able to point to existing partitions, I do that all the time.

Agreed, although, strangely, that didn't work for me recently when I installed SL 5.5 KDE amd64 on my nettop. I ended up having to use GParted to delete all the existing partitions and created new ones.

[genfool]

since sabayon does no longer come with gparted, as far as I know.... last time I tried to use gparted it failed anyways.

In irc #sabayon, I have seen where the live installer has mounted swap or other partitions while booting.
This will be an instant fail for the installer. Often if you run dmesg |tail right after the installer fails, you will see the error.

So we have choices if this is the case, we can use the swapoff command, manually unmount any partition mounted and try again.
If this is a single boot machine and not saving any existing partitions, easy to use fdisk and remove all partitions, reboot and should work.

I have seen some cases that if you simply try long and hard enough, all existing partitions are hosed by the installer and now will work.