So, same problem here.
Live 13.10 USB key created with usb-creator-gtk, tried on a Dell
Latitude E6400.
Yesterday, with an unformatted hard disk, it worked: live system came up
without trouble.
Today, with a harddisk formatted ext4 (whole disk; no partitions),
doesn't work. Boot bails out with
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 457957 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/457957
Public bug reported:
kernel package cannot install because /boot is not mounted.
when will this ever be fixed
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 457957 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/457957
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36052115/BootDmesg.txt
** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36052116/CurrentDmesg.txt
** Attachment
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 457957 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/457957
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 457957
things are installed in wrong place because /boot is not mounted
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package linux-image-2.6.28-15-generic 2.6.28-15.52 failed to install/upgrade:
sub
Public bug reported:
I have a separate /boot partition which is not mounted during normal
system use.
Recent kernel packages (don't know about older ones) apparently do not
check during installation whether there is a separate /boot partition
which is not mounted.
Hence on my system, those kerne
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34134546/BootDmesg.txt
** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34134547/CurrentDmesg.txt
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/34134548/Dependencies.txt
** A
Found the problem: My /boot is not mounted during normal system use:
$ cat /etc/fstab |grep boot
# /boot was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=38d3680f-7c05-40fd-a409-2c4d6460a732 /boot ext2
relatime,noauto0 2
Doing
$ sudo mount /boot
before
$ sudo aptitude full-u
** Attachment added: "BootDmesg.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32848398/BootDmesg.txt
** Attachment added: "CurrentDmesg.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32848399/CurrentDmesg.txt
** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32848400/Dependencies.txt
** A
Public bug reported:
Required input is missing.
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=37f65803-b3b4-49b4-bd84-c7b44da4d77d
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D63