Install Problem

[hitokiri0kenshin]

Hey guys, i'm running Sabayon off of the dvd and love it, but I am having a problem installing it. I'm using a SCSI drive. I go through the automatic installer and partitioner and i get this error:

Error informing the kernal about modifications to partition /dev/sda2 -- Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/sda2 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.

I am able to ignore that and i get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 957, in handleRenderCallback
self.currentWindow.renderCallback()
File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 275, in renderCallback
self.intf.icw.nextClicked()
File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 874, in nextClicked
self.dispatch.gotoNext()
File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 179, in gotoNext
self.moveStep()
File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 247, in moveStep
rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 319, in turnOnFilesystems
diskset.savePartitions ()
File "/opt/anaconda/usr/lib/anaconda/partedUtils.py", line 746, in savePartitions
disk.commit()
error: Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/sda2 -- Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/sda2 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.


I really want to get this up and running and am looking forward to your help.

[cvill64]

Can you submit that as a bug report so we can more accurately handle it?

Also, submit in your report your dmesg and lspci output so we can see what type of mobo and hardware you have

Thanks

[hitokiri0kenshin]

Sorry, i'm new to sabayon.....how do i submit a bug report?

Edit:
I figured it out(i think) it's sent

[cvill64]

Thanks

[gangsta^s]

Has this problem ever been resolved? I recently purchased Sabayon Linux 3.26 Live DVD, as an easy way to install a Gentoo system, with wifi working, so I can emerge via wifi from my laptop. Anyway, I am getting the exact same error, but my drive isn't scsi, it should be hda but Sabayon seems to read it is sda. I tried adding the noscsi flag at boot to no avail. I'm not sure if that is the problem or not, but the install seems to fail right before it tries to unpack the distfiles. Any suggestions?

[davemc]

You should not have any trouble installing 3.26. For wifi you'll have more luck with 3.3

[chickpea]

Has this problem ever been resolved? I recently purchased Sabayon Linux 3.26 Live DVD, as an easy way to install a Gentoo system, with wifi working, so I can emerge via wifi from my laptop. Anyway, I am getting the exact same error, but my drive isn't scsi, it should be hda but Sabayon seems to read it is sda. I tried adding the noscsi flag at boot to no avail. I'm not sure if that is the problem or not, but the install seems to fail right before it tries to unpack the distfiles. Any suggestions?

ALL drives now appear as scsi through scsi emulation. Not sure what is causing your error, but your HDD is supposed to show up as sda

[gangsta^s]

Has this problem ever been resolved? I recently purchased Sabayon Linux 3.26 Live DVD, as an easy way to install a Gentoo system, with wifi working, so I can emerge via wifi from my laptop. Anyway, I am getting the exact same error, but my drive isn't scsi, it should be hda but Sabayon seems to read it is sda. I tried adding the noscsi flag at boot to no avail. I'm not sure if that is the problem or not, but the install seems to fail right before it tries to unpack the distfiles. Any suggestions?

ALL drives now appear as scsi through scsi emulation. Not sure what is causing your error, but your HDD is supposed to show up as sda

Okay, I researched this, and I found out that starting with 2.6.19 kernel there is a bug where the scsi interface gets loaded before the proper one. This is a bug, and not a feature, since you really don't want your ATA drive to load as a scsi drive. The reason why is scsi has a limit of 16 devices, so if you had drive that was hda16 or higher you won't be able to load it. There is an easy fix, but the livecd didn't support it. if you send the kernel "earlymodules=piix" then the proper module gets loaded in the proper order. Anyway, I repartitioned my drive reluctantly, since if you have more than one distro on y our computer you can easily go over 15 partitions. Anyway, that solved that problem, but I still wasn't able to install sabayon, because each time it is installing files, at different perecentages (Sometimes 15% sometimes 30%) the installer crashes hard, where you can't even move the mouse poiinter and the hard drive light remains lit. Anyway, at that point I gave up trying to install Sabayon, because there aren't any clues as to why it crashed that I can research to find a solution. :/ Anyway, I think it is pretty bad that an installation program can crash a system so hard.

[morsun]

I've tried to install sabayon using different methods, grafical , text etc on 3 different computers and every time I have same error as above posted. These are not bleeding edge machines... Is there any workaround or need to wait for 3.4 version?

[morsun]

You should not have any trouble installing 3.26. For wifi you'll have more luck with 3.3

I've tried to install sabayon using different methods, grafical , text etc on 3 different computers and every time I have same error as above posted. These are not bleeding edge machines... Is there any workaround or need to wait for 3.4 version?