FYI. I installed edgy from scratch on a brand-new laptop, with no issues. However, following a bad mishap on my part, I need to reinstall it. This time, I went for the alternative i386 CD. I choose to reuse the existing partitions (1 NTFS, 1 ext3 for /, 1 swap) , and not format the one containing / (didn't want to lose the contents of /home). So I dropped to a shell and rm -rf'd everything except /home. The install then "fails" with grub unable to install itself, so I installed lilo. The system is now up & running, but: a) grub-install hd0 or grub-install hd0,n fails with: Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device. b) cat /etc/fstab : # UNCONFIGURED FSTAB FOR BASE SYSTEM is the only line...
I found some "advice" to fix the grub issue by copying /proc/mounts to /etc/fstab, but that didn't work, as it contains a reference to /dev/root and rootfs, but no "real" device. This is just another example that fstab may be created in target at an inappropriate moment, as a somewhat knowledgeable user can still break things during install. -- Installer creates /target/etc/fstab at wrong time https://launchpad.net/bugs/10556 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
