SL8 installer crashes after selecting HDDs to mount [Solved]

[Martux]

Hello? No help at all here? This is a real showstopper-bug. Is there any fix? Again: The computer I attempted to install Sabayon on is unusable now. I don't have much time to waste and will investigate other distris soon. That is a shame as I really thought I like Sabayon quite good.
Regarding the bug: Unless the other posters, I don't have 4 primary partitions, only 1 for windows, the others are linux-extended.
Please, an admin or dev, respond.

[BHReach]

http://cdn.mirror.garr.it/mirror2/mirrors/sabayonlinux/iso/daily/

Try the latest weekly (it days daily but is weekly) iso's to see if they fixed the problem. Also try the different flavors, sometimes one works better than the others on various hardware.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Martux, if I understand you correctly, you have a machine with a) only one primary partition, and on that partition you have Windows; b) you attempted to install SL in the remaining HDD space and let the SL Installer partition that space.

If you can boot Windows, or use another machine, download the SystemRescueCd ISO and burn a LiveCD or Live pen drive for SystemRescueCd. Then boot that and use GParted to wipe the Linux partitions on your HDD and create the following three fresh partitions. As you only have one primary partition, you can create three more primary partitions, as you can have up to four primary partitions on a HDD.

swap (Linux swap file system) primary partition. Make this the same size as your RAM if you have plenty of HDD space and you want SL to be able to hibernate. Otherwise, a minimum of 512 MB is sufficient.

/ (ext4 file system) primary partition. Make this 32 GB (or more, if you have plenty of space).

/home (ext4 file system) primary partition. Fill the rest of your HDD's free space with this. All your personal documents, music and video files will go on here later.

Now shut down, load the SL LiveDVD or Live pen drive, boot your machine and run the Installer. When you get to the screen that asks you what type of installation you would like, select Create Custom Layout. Then manually select your pre-created partitions (you can re-format them as ext4) and proceed from there. Don't let Sabayon create the partitions for you, and don't use LVM. See how you get on doing it that way.

[mélodie]

Hi,
waxitman and Martux, I have installed 2 flavors of Sabayon on 3 machines lately and didn't meet with any issue with the installer or with anything else. This was Sabayon 8 amd64 Gnome and Sabayon 7 Lxde 32bits.

I suspect you have had a bad download and or a bad burn.

1) have you checked the md5sum ?
2) have you downloaded by clicking from the web browser ? If yes, would you mind trying a download with wget in console ?

3) once burned can you check the md5sum of your CD ? Or install to a usb pendrive for an even safer install ?

to waximan : you can have max 4 primary partitions, among them one only can be an extended partition. You cannot have "4+1".

You can therefore have 3 primary max + 1 extended within which you can have many logical partitions.

[Martux]

I finally have it working
Here is what I did... Partition scheme was like this:
Primary Partition Windows. Swap, Root and a NTFS-storage partition all logical partitions.
Problem was that I couldn't delete the NTFS data partition.
So I just deleted the old root (sda6), marked it as Linux partition in cfdisk and then the installer was finding the partitions
Thanks for your help, my gf will be really happy with her shiny new Sabayon installation...

[waxitman]

Hello Martux. I have had no further progress with this installation. I have also tried to install after deleting the partitions which were formatted by SL6 but no luck. After my montly data quota rolled over I downloaded Sabayon 7 amd64 K which installed perfectly but it always crashes during the boot. A black screen which has been noted on another users post. I have not had time to investigate but my first plan is to try an older video card and reinstall SL7. If that works I will update all packages to current versions and try again with my current video card. Otherwise I will need to find another Linux distro to turn to.

Just a point, SL6, SL7 and SL8 are all fully functional for me from the live CD/DVD and USB. If these do not work you may have a different problem. My only issue is with the installer.

SL gurus, is there a way I can copy the SL7 Anaconda into SL8 data? Then burn a live disc and install SL8.... Something has changed between these two versions of Anaconda.

[Fitzcarraldo]

waxitman, if in all cases SL is working fine for you from a LiveCD/DVD/USB, but it will not boot following what appears to be a successful installation, I suggest you try to check which video driver is in use when you are using the LiveCD/DVD and then try to chroot into the installed OS on the HDD and check whether the OS has been installed for the same video driver. Try comparing the following for the LiveCD/DVD/USB and for the installed OS that you have chrooted into:

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cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep Driver
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep driver
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW
eselect opengl list
eselect mesa list

[mélodie]

waxitman, if in all cases SL is working fine for you from a LiveCD/DVD/USB, but it will not boot following what appears to be a successful installation, I suggest you try to check which video driver is in use(...)

Hi,

Beg your pardon, I read he said : "My only issue is with the installer.".

[Fitzcarraldo]

Oh, yes. I was reading:

I downloaded Sabayon 7 amd64 K which installed perfectly but it always crashes during the boot

so I should have written:

waxitman, if SL is working fine for you from a SL 7 LiveCD/DVD/USB, but it will not boot following what appears to be a successful installation, I suggest you try to check which video driver is in use when you are using the LiveCD/DVD and then try to chroot into the installed OS on the HDD and check whether the OS has been installed for the same video driver. Try comparing the following for the LiveCD/DVD/USB and for the installed OS that you have chrooted into... etc. etc.

[tomekwalowski]

I have similar problem.
When I try install sabayon on my hard drive, after when I choose my hard drive installer is susspended :
And I have this massage:

on this link File name: error.odt File size: 26.67 KB