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bug#35852: Disk device disappears before installer can mount it
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#35852: Disk device disappears before installer can mount it |
Date: |
Sat, 25 May 2019 19:28:47 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hello Graham,
Graham Lee <address@hidden> skribis:
> To recap, I’m choosing the guided partition scheme, with everything in a
> single partition. The installer proposes a reasonable scheme: it keeps my EFI
> partition, then a big e4fs, then a Linux swap partition.
> I accept that, and go through connecting to a network, setting root password,
> adding a user, and choosing desktop and daemon packages. Then the next error.
>
>> In procedure mount: mount “/dev/sda1” on “/mnt/boot/efi”: No such device
>
> Indeed if I press OK and rerun to the installer, then the next time it gets
> to the partition page it won’t see the SSD. It doesn’t get detected again
> until a reboot.
>
> The SSD is Samsung SSD PM871 mSATA 256GB
So IIUC, the SSD is initially detected correctly, which allows you to
partition it, but later on /dev/sda1 “disappears”, right?
Could it be that “/dev/sda1” is actually the wrong device name? What
does ‘mount’ and ‘fdisk -l /dev/sda’ show, once you’ve got the error
message?
Thanks,
Ludo’.