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Re: Error when booting: Diskfilter writes not supported
« Reply #32 on: June 21, 2018, 06:35:03 AM »
 

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@whateverthing , no problem. If you feel that it works now, please mark this topic as solved, thank you :)

( The dd part did it in this case, since the hd had an old LVM signature on it and therefore the lvm-daemon locked access to it )
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Re: Error when booting: Diskfilter writes not supported
« Reply #31 on: June 21, 2018, 02:09:37 AM »
 

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So far, so good. I've rebooted and still haven't seen the error I had before. I'm not sure what part of the partition and reinstall process fixed that. But thank you @kpanic for walking me through it. I've removed virtual box support, and made other adjustments as I settle into this installation.
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« Reply #30 on: June 20, 2018, 02:22:06 PM »
 

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@whateverthing , that's good news, congratulations!
 

Re: Error when booting: Diskfilter writes not supported
« Reply #29 on: June 20, 2018, 02:01:12 PM »
 

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@kpanic That seemed to work. I completed installation this morning (my time), and on first reboot I didn't see any Grub error messages. I'll need to spend more time with it this evening, and I'll remove the virtual box support to speed boot time. I'll let you know how it goes!
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Re: Error when booting: Diskfilter writes not supported
« Reply #28 on: June 20, 2018, 06:06:02 AM »
 

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@whateverthing , oh yes!

Please, edit the partition /dev/sda1 and choose it to be ext4 and ALSO choose it to mount to /
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« Reply #27 on: June 20, 2018, 12:09:47 AM »
 

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Haven't finished installing yet. Was waiting to make sure it looked right.

But when I click "Install Now," it says: No Root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu.

In that installation partition list, when I double-click /def/sda1, the pop-up says:
Use as: do not use this partition

Should I change that to one of the other options in the drop list? There's Ext4, Ext3, FAT16, FAT32, and several others. Or is there some other way I need to tell it to use it as root?
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« Reply #26 on: June 19, 2018, 09:11:56 PM »
 

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@whateverthing ,

Great, that picture looks exactly like it should be. Hopefully you got though the
installation!
 

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« Reply #25 on: June 19, 2018, 09:08:47 PM »
 

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@trinidad , ok, thank you for helping out!
 

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« Reply #24 on: June 19, 2018, 01:33:08 PM »
 

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@trinidad @kpanic Thank you again for helping me with this.

It is an old laptop, that long ago ran WinXP. Before LL4.0, I had it set up to dual-boot Linux Mint and Linux Lite 3.x. I decided to dedicate it entirely to LL4.0, and after test-running on a live USB drive, I told the installer to replace everything. It seemed to work fine, except the Grub boot error message, which I could bypass with just a few seconds delay.

I'm looking at the BIOS screen. I don't see anything about it being 32-bit specific. Is there something I should look for?
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Re: Error when booting: Diskfilter writes not supported
« Reply #23 on: June 19, 2018, 09:57:20 AM »
 

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@kpanic

All the advice you have given so far is thoughtful and accurate. I'm only guessing that he is on a machine with 32bit BIOS. If the memory is 2gig and the HDD small that can often be the case. It was common on such lower end hardware for there to be BIOS persistent RAM that expected a 32bit partition. Usually POST will report an addressing error when booting on such machines, and Debian will report a 32bit address breaking warning. Most of these low end BIOS allow F1 to continue booting after the POST warning if you can get the system installed. The other workaround is that dual booting usually works ok on these machines but in order to remove Windows afterwards you must first de-fragment & shrink the Windows partition, then copy it to a new partition, then format the old partition to ext4 and install Linux there, then remove Windows and add the partition space onto the new Linux partition after Linux is up and running. None of these low end BIOS machines came with a Windows installation disk. Imagine that. Your input since joining the forum has been excellent.

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Re: Error when booting: Diskfilter writes not supported
« Reply #22 on: June 19, 2018, 02:25:04 AM »
 

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@kpanic  ... with your suggestions, I think I got through the partitioning process. I'm now installing, and got to the hard drive options, and I chose "something else." Is this what the screen should look like?



When you say: tell it to mount sda1 to / do I need to do anything here? Or is it ready for me to click Install Now?
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Re: Error when booting: Diskfilter writes not supported
« Reply #21 on: June 18, 2018, 04:51:01 PM »
 

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@trinidad , well I have probably missed that part when he mentioned something about Windows.
And it really does not matter unless he is running a really strange hardware.

But I don't think this is the case since the HD is under 200Gb.
It would be nice to get his Linux up and working. I hope the 'dd' will
do the job - but as this is really an exceptional case, I would not bet on it

Nothing to do with Windows, BIOS or MBR. This problem has to do with some process locking access to the
hard drive and since /dev/sda1 already seems to have an LVM signature - probably from some previous installation - I guess
one possibility is that LVM still sees that partition belonging to it. That is why I want to wipe out the contents
including the meta-data from that partition.

Let us see :)
« Last Edit: June 18, 2018, 05:06:38 PM by kpanic »
 

Re: Error when booting: Diskfilter writes not supported
« Reply #20 on: June 18, 2018, 04:32:35 PM »
 

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It was probably caused when the OP installed the 3.8 system. Just took the whole drive and went MBR and broke a Windows 32bit BIOS partition. I pulled the drive and plugged it into my one pure Linux box that has never had Windows on it and installed the system to the drive there. I plugged it back into the Windows 8 problem box, tweaked a few hardware settings and all is well with the HDD though I must hit F1 to boot. Ugly I know, but it was a long day and I got the box and drive in that condition from another person.

I tried zeroing the whole drive initially with a gparted live disk which took quite a while but then the ISO wouldn't install. Even Debian net install bailed at grub installation so it did not solve the sector misalignment issue. That's when ugly came into play. The drive can't be zeroed out of misalignment running on the offending machine once the BIOS persistent partition is corrupted. Drive must be removed from the Windows machine with the broken BIOS to do so, OR initially set up for Ubuntu from a Windows power shell which is unfortunately an option the OP no longer has.

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Re: Error when booting: Diskfilter writes not supported
« Reply #19 on: June 18, 2018, 01:45:23 PM »
 

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Meanwhile, let me introduce a more brutal approach to this problem.

Since the partitioning succeeded, then you may as well do:
(First disable the lvm daemon(s) as I explained before. Then (as root):
Code: [Select]
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1
The dd command does not watch other processes or existing signatures,
so it just wipes out every lvm-signatures among everything else in your root partition.

Just let it do it's job two minutes (then CTRL+C) and I'm quite sure LVM does not lock
that partition after you reboot...
« Last Edit: June 18, 2018, 01:56:39 PM by kpanic »
 

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« Reply #18 on: June 18, 2018, 01:06:36 PM »
 

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@trinidad, thanks for the comment!

I don't know why his drive is 'in use' since I'm a newbie when it comes to LL or Ubuntu
installations but in my opinion, if you boot a Live system, which remains only in RAM,
it should NOT touch (or even worse, use) your hard drives in any way.
I mean, that is the whole idea of a "Live System", right?

However, if you know a solution to this particular problem, please help the guy out,
since I'm soon out of solutions to his problem...

Cheers!
kpanic
 

 

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