Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-22 Thread Dan Norton
-Original Message- >From: Tom Furie >Sent: Nov 22, 2017 5:48 AM >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Installer Can Not Find Root > >On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 09:28:55PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > >> > ...and all of Dan's mails to the list...

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-22 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 09:28:55PM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: > > ...and all of Dan's mails to the list... > All? How far back? That was my error, somehow my fingers typed "list" when my brain was thinking "thread". Cheers, Tom -- BOFH excuse #185: system consumed all the paper for paging si

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 November 2017 21:28:55 Dan Norton wrote: > -Original Message- > > >From: Tom Furie > >Sent: Nov 21, 2017 3:25 AM > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: Installer Can Not Find Root > > > >On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 a

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-21 21:28 (UTC-0500): >>That's weird. The original mail, and all of Dan's mails to the list, have >>only a single html part. An incredibly badly constructed html part at >>that. > All? How far back? Just this thread (all written with Earthlink web mail), until this,

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-21 Thread Dan Norton
-Original Message- >From: Tom Furie >Sent: Nov 21, 2017 3:25 AM >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Installer Can Not Find Root > >On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 05:47:55PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > >> That's weird. I don't see that o

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-21 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 05:47:55PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > That's weird. I don't see that on my end. The original email looks as > normally expected from Debian lists. :) That's weird. The original mail, and all of Dan's mails to the list, have only a single html part. An incredibly badl

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-20 Thread Dan Norton
-Original Message->From: Tom Dial >Sent: Nov 19, 2017 6:44 PM>To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" >Subject: Re: Installer Can Not Find Root>>>>On 11/18/2017 07:26 PM, Dan Norton wrote:>> While trying to netinst Debian 8.9 into an LVM physical volume

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-20 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/20/17, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 08:43:30AM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: >>

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 08:43:30AM -0500, Dan Norton wrote: >

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-20 Thread Dan Norton
-Original Message->From: Pascal Hambourg >Sent: Nov 19, 2017 3:26 PM>To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" >Subject: Re: Installer Can Not Find Root>>Le 19/11/2017 à 20:02, Dan Norton a écrit :>>-Original Message->>>From: Pascal Hambourg&

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-19 Thread Tom Dial
On 11/18/2017 07:26 PM, Dan Norton wrote: > While trying to netinst Debian 8.9 into an LVM physical volume I keep > running into "installer can not find root" or words to that effect. This > is a dead end in the installer AFAICT. > > I have tried GPT but this HP UEFI does not play nicely with it

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 19/11/2017 à 20:02, Dan Norton a écrit : -Original Message- From: Pascal Hambourg Sent: Nov 19, 2017 11:03 AM To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Subject: Re: Installer Can Not Find Root Le 19/11/2017 à 03:26, Dan Norton a écrit : user@debian:/$ sudo mount /dev/debi

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-19 Thread Dan Norton
 -Original Message->From: Pascal Hambourg >Sent: Nov 19, 2017 11:03 AM>To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" >Subject: Re: Installer Can Not Find Root>>Le 19/11/2017 à 03:26, Dan Norton a écrit :>> >> Using LVM, one physical volume is defined on the

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 19/11/2017 à 03:26, Dan Norton a écrit : Using LVM, one physical volume is defined on the entire sda5 partition. A volume group named "debian8-vg" is defined as the only vg in that pv. Five logical volumes have been defined in the vg. One lv intended as root was defined like this with a Debia