General issue with Trisquel 5.5 installer and PATA HDDs ?
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Hi all,
two days ago I wanted to set up another Trisquel Box using the standard 32 Bit ISO and the installer provided in Live mode.
The system is/was nothing special:
- Intel Pentium D 2x2.8 GHz
- 1 GB RAM
- PATA 160GB HDD (Samsung)
- PATA DVDROM
- GeForce 8600GT
I had the system set up previously with Manjaro Linux for testing. So the HDD was already partitioned. When I started the installation of Trisquel everything went fine until I reached the part where you can partition your HDD / choose where the bootloader gets installed.
/dev/sda was shown for the boot manager but the partition layout was greyed out. I partitioned the HDD with a single primary partition via fdisk, tryed again but still could not choose the partition layout. After formating the new generated partition with ext3 the installer then "magically" continued and I could choose to remove the "existing Linux system".
IIRC I had the same issue when setting up the Trisquel box for my little one. It also has an old 100 GB PATA HDD as system drive.
Unfortunately I could not find any error messages of the installer under /var/log. The output of dmesg looked also fine.
Does the Trisquel installer have issues with PATA drives ? I remember that installing Trisquel x64 to my 16GB USB stick worked like a charm and I could choose the partitioning of my "HDD" back then.
Regards,
Holger
Maybe a problem with the Partition Table. I am not aware of any problem with PATA drives (even knowing that I don't own one myself).
Have you tried with Ubuntu for instance to see if it let you do what you want to do ? If you could test, then please report back if it works so we can look for a solution.
Look, if I remember correctly both machines I set up showed similar behaviour:
Both have PATA drives, had already Linux installed and a pre-partitioned drive.
Generating one preformated ext3 partition on the HDD "solved" the issue.
Unfortunately I do not feel like re-installing the last box, since I already have installed a lot of stuff and taylored it to my needs.
If one highlights where the log of the Ubuntu / Trisquel installer is stored (/var/log I guess). I will try to find it.
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