Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
Using the latest jaunty-desktop-amd64.iso from about a week ago.
Trying to install from the live CD environment I chose manual partitioning
setup, selected a blank preformatted partition for my root partition
(/dev/sda7) and an existing ext2 boot partition (/dev/sda2), when I tried to go
to the next step I got an error saying "No root filesystem is defined".
You can clearly see on the attached screenshot that a root filesystem was
defined.
After some fiddling about:
* Deleting and recreating the root partition
* Choosing ext3 instead of ext4 for the root partition
* Selecting option for partitioner to format the partition, not selecting it
and formatting myself
I still got the error. I used apt-get to upgrade to the latest version
of ubiquity and still got the same error.
I finally got it to install by not selecting the boot partition,
installing everything on the root partition (/dev/sda7).
I have attached partman and syslog from /var/log/installer and also a
screenshot showing the error message.
(The logs may be fairly long due to all of the methods tried to get this
installed)
I do have an unusual partitioning scheme on the disk at present with partition
numbers that do not represent the physical order on the disk!
An intersting point to note from the partman log is that it sees the blank
space between /dev/sda7 and /dev/sda5 as /dev/sda-1, i.e. a partition id of -1.
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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'No root filesystem is defined' error even though root fileystem has been
defined
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324401
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