Why I get this error message? "the . boot partition must be ..."
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Why I get this error message? "the . boot partition must be ..."
I try to set up Deepin 23 as a part of a dual boot. I get an error at the beginning of the installation process (see the attached screenshot.). I have used early versions of Deepin in the same arrangement before without this issue. How to resolve it?
Boot any Linux in live or recovery mode and provide us output from parted -l and lsblk -f, and we may be able to determine what the installer's complaint is about.
Boot any Linux in live or recovery mode and provide us output from parted -l and lsblk -f, and we may be able to determine what the installer's complaint is about.
Those are Linux commands, right? The Linux hasn't been installed yet. And Deepin doesn't have a live mode. How to run them?
In Linux installers I'm familiar with, after booting to the installer is complete, Ctrl-Alt-F2 can produce a shell prompt from which common commands like these two can be run. Command output can be redirected to a file on a FAT filesystem that Windows can read.
Basically those commands are for determining your current disk configuration in sufficient detail, which you don't get using Windows' own tools, and thus why you see the message you see, and what to suggest you do to avoid or get past the problem.
http://www.dfsee.com has a partitioner that logs output. You could use its log to show the same information needed. Simply start it up, then exit, to get a log to paste here using code tags.
In Linux installers I'm familiar with, after booting to the installer is complete, Ctrl-Alt-F2 can produce a shell prompt from which common commands like these two can be run. Command output can be redirected to a file on a FAT filesystem that Windows can read.
Basically those commands are for determining your current disk configuration in sufficient detail, which you don't get using Windows' own tools, and thus why you see the message you see, and what to suggest you do to avoid or get past the problem.
http://www.dfsee.com has a partitioner that logs output. You could use its log to show the same information needed. Simply start it up, then exit, to get a log to paste here using code tags.
Thanks for your info. Here is the log from DFSee, not sure whether it is what you want to see or not. I run it on Windows and I don't see the partition which I set up for Linux under drive selection. It is marked as free space.
Code:
Creating new log : 'D:\dfsee.log' (7-bit ASCII)
Working directory : C:\Program Files (x86)\Fsys Software\DFSee\bin
ReadWrite Store A : PhysDisk : 1 PartId 00 = -- mode=FDISK 20230102-112740
RC:0 <Enter> : 0x00000000 up=0x00000000 this=0x00000000 Base=0x00000000 Xtra=0x1BF244AF
What I expected to see looks like what I attached. Your paste is pretty much the same as the first 5 lines of what I attached, and expected to see you paste. The most important part of what I attached begins on line 60, the main table of partitioning data.
In Windows to work as I expected DFSee needs to be run as administrator. It's been a very long time since I tried running it in Windows, and forgot.
What I expected to see looks like what I attached. Your paste is pretty much the same as the first 5 lines of what I attached, and expected to see you paste. The most important part of what I attached begins on line 60, the main table of partitioning data.
Thanks again. I open the log file again and see it contains more context as the following
Code:
Creating new log : 'D:\dfsee.log' (7-bit ASCII)
Working directory : C:\Program Files (x86)\Fsys Software\DFSee\bin
ReadWrite Store A : PhysDisk : 1 PartId 00 = -- mode=FDISK 20230102-112740
RC:0 <Enter> : 0x00000000 up=0x00000000 this=0x00000000 Base=0x00000000 Xtra=0x1BF244AF
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
Inaccessible directory: '-not-ready-'
Not ready, disconnected LAN, unrecognized filesystem,
or mistyped directory name. Revert to last valid ...
Inaccessible directory: '-not-ready-'
Not ready, disconnected LAN, unrecognized filesystem,
or mistyped directory name. Revert to last valid ...
Inaccessible directory: '-not-ready-'
Not ready, disconnected LAN, unrecognized filesystem,
or mistyped directory name. Revert to last valid ...
Inaccessible directory: '-not-ready-'
Not ready, disconnected LAN, unrecognized filesystem,
or mistyped directory name. Revert to last valid ...
Inaccessible directory: '-not-ready-'
Not ready, disconnected LAN, unrecognized filesystem,
or mistyped directory name. Revert to last valid ...
Inaccessible directory: '-not-ready-'
Not ready, disconnected LAN, unrecognized filesystem,
or mistyped directory name. Revert to last valid ...
DFSee version 17.0 2022-10-25 (c) 1994-2022: Jan van Wijk
=========================[ www.dfsee.com ]==========================
DFSee Win32 17.0 : executing: runscript proftemp.dfs
Command timestamp : Monday 2023-01-02 12:02:56
Profile template! : Update + rename to profile.dfs to setup DFSee to your liking
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
DFSee invocation : C:\Program Files (x86)\Fsys Software\DFSee\bin\DFSWIN.EXE
Working directory : C:\Program Files (x86)\Fsys Software\DFSee\bin
Fsys Software - https: //www.dfsee.com
DFSee Win32 : 17.0 2022-10-25 (c) 1994-2022: Jan van Wijk (32-bit)
TxWin UI Lib : 7.00 2021-02-28 (c) 1995-2021: Fsys Software
OS version : Windows-10 Unknown version, possible preview Build 19045
Current user : vwu72, on DESKTOP-07KAE3Q, running 64-bit Windows
Additional copyright notices listed with HELP, use <F1>
OPEN SOURCE edition, no registration required
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
DFSee Win32 17.0 : executing: map
Command timestamp : Monday 2023-01-02 12:02:57
+-[MBR disk 1]--[/dev/sda]--[SCSI KINGSTON S]-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| | |+===============================================================================================================+| ||
| | || || ||
|m|1 ||1 ||7 ||
|b| ||C: || ||
|r|FreeSp||NTFS ||FreeSpace Pri/Log ||
| | || || ||
| | || || ||
| | |+===============================================================================================================+| ||
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+-[MBR disk 2]--[/dev/sdb]--[SCSI ST1000DM00]-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| | |+=================+| |+==========================================++===========================================================+========================================================================================| ||
| | || || || || |+--------------------------------------------------++----------------------------------+| ||
|m|2 ||2 ||3 ||3 ||4 ||5 ||6 ||8 ||
|b| || || ||D: ||F: || || || ||
|r|Free||FAT16 ||Free||NTFS ||NTFS ||EXT4 ||SWAP ||Part||
| | ||DellUtility || ||RECOVERY ||OS || ||SWAPSPACE2 || ||
| |ace || ||ace || || |+--------------------------------------------------++----------------------------------+|l Cy||
| |Wast|+=================+|Wast|+==========================================++===========================================================+========================================================================================|lind||
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
DFSee Win32 17.0 : executing: display
Command timestamp : Monday 2023-01-02 12:02:57
Current display is: 237 columns x 73 rows = 17301 cells
ReadWrite Store A : PhysDisk : 1 PartId 00 = -- mode=FDISK 20230102-120257
RC:0 <Enter> : 0x00000000 up=0x00000000 this=0x00000000 Base=0x00000000 Xtra=0x1BF244AF
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
DFSee version 17.0 2022-10-25 (c) 1994-2022: Jan van Wijk
=========================[ www.dfsee.com ]==========================
DFSee Win32 17.0 : executing: runscript proftemp.dfs
Command timestamp : Monday 2023-01-02 12:29:09
Profile template! : Update + rename to profile.dfs to setup DFSee to your liking
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
DFSee invocation : C:\Program Files (x86)\Fsys Software\DFSee\bin\DFSWIN.EXE
Working directory : C:\Program Files (x86)\Fsys Software\DFSee\bin
Fsys Software - https: //www.dfsee.com
DFSee Win32 : 17.0 2022-10-25 (c) 1994-2022: Jan van Wijk (32-bit)
TxWin UI Lib : 7.00 2021-02-28 (c) 1995-2021: Fsys Software
OS version : Windows-10 Unknown version, possible preview Build 19045
Current user : vwu72, on DESKTOP-07KAE3Q, running 64-bit Windows
Additional copyright notices listed with HELP, use <F1>
OPEN SOURCE edition, no registration required
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
DFSee Win32 17.0 : executing: map
Command timestamp : Monday 2023-01-02 12:29:09
+-[MBR disk 1]--[/dev/sda]--[SCSI KINGSTON S]--------------------------------------------------------------+
| | |+====================================================+| ||
| | || || ||
|m|1 ||1 ||7 ||
|b| ||C: || ||
|r|Free||NTFS ||FreeSpace Pri/Log ||
| | || || ||
| |ace || || ||
| |Prim|+====================================================+| ||
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+-[MBR disk 2]--[/dev/sdb]--[SCSI ST1000DM00]----------------------------------------------------------------+
| | |+========+| |+==================++===========================+=======================================| ||
| | || || || || |+---------------------++--------------+| ||
|m|2 ||2 ||3 ||3 ||4 ||5 ||6 ||8 ||
|b| || || ||D: ||F: || || || ||
|r|Fre||FAT16 ||Fre||NTFS ||NTFS ||EXT4 ||SWAP ||Par||
| | ||DellUtil|| ||RECOVERY ||OS || ||SWAPSPACE2 || ||
| |ace|| ||ace|| || |+---------------------++--------------+|l C||
| |Was|+========+|Was|+==================++===========================+=======================================|lin||
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
DFSee Win32 17.0 : executing: display
Command timestamp : Monday 2023-01-02 12:29:09
Current display is: 120 columns x 30 rows = 3600 cells
ReadWrite Store A : PhysDisk : 1 PartId 00 = -- mode=FDISK 20230102-122909
RC:0 <Enter> : 0x00000000 up=0x00000000 this=0x00000000 Base=0x00000000 Xtra=0x1BF244AF
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
Apparently Windows behaves differently by default, logging what I don't care about only, and leaving out what I do, and also it looks like if you start it, then exit, then start again, it appends to the log instead of creating a completely new log. What you pasted completely left out everything about sizes, so please try again:
start dfsee
F10 (exits menu)
geo (prints short geometry summary)
part (creates data table that includes sizes of both partitions and freespaces, types and much more)
F3 (quits dfsee)
All I'm actually interested in is the table resulting from the geo and part commands, like you see in my attachment. The rest is unimportant.
From what I've seen so far, I have no idea what the Deepin installer was complaining about. OTOH, the DFSee output you pasted shows two different things 27 minutes apart, both of which are very different from the two disks with 3 partitions each in the Deepin image. The earlier section shows only one partition on the Kingston, and four on the Seagate. The later shows six on the Seagate. ?!?!??!!?!
Apparently Windows behaves differently by default, logging what I don't care about only, and leaving out what I do, and also it looks like if you start it, then exit, then start again, it appends to the log instead of creating a completely new log. What you pasted completely left out everything about sizes, so please try again:
start dfsee
F10 (exits menu)
geo (prints short geometry summary)
part (creates data table that includes sizes of both partitions and freespaces, types and much more)
F3 (quits dfsee)
All I'm actually interested in is the table resulting from the geo and part commands, like you see in my attachment. The rest is unimportant.
From what I've seen so far, I have no idea what the Deepin installer was complaining about. OTOH, the DFSee output you pasted shows two different things 27 minutes apart, both of which are very different from the two disks with 3 partitions each in the Deepin image. The earlier section shows only one partition on the Kingston, and four on the Seagate. The later shows six on the Seagate. ?!?!??!!?!
Thanks very much for your help again. I run those commands in the sequence with an extra step "log to file ..." prior to the F10. Here is the output file. It contains one or two sections that weren't in the previous printout. Let me whether it is what you expect or not. If not, I can run it again. The Windows disk management shows two partitions on the disk 0 (SSD) and five partitions on disk 1 (HDD).
Code:
Creating new log : 'D:\dfsee.log' (7-bit ASCII)
Working directory : C:\Program Files (x86)\Fsys Software\DFSee\bin
ReadWrite Store A : PhysDisk : 1 PartId 00 = -- mode=FDISK 20230102-112740
RC:0 <Enter> : 0x00000000 up=0x00000000 this=0x00000000 Base=0x00000000 Xtra=0x1BF244AF
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
Inaccessible directory: '-not-ready-'
Not ready, disconnected LAN, unrecognized filesystem,
or mistyped directory name. Revert to last valid ...
Inaccessible directory: '-not-ready-'
Not ready, disconnected LAN, unrecognized filesystem,
or mistyped directory name. Revert to last valid ...
Inaccessible directory: '-not-ready-'
Not ready, disconnected LAN, unrecognized filesystem,
or mistyped directory name. Revert to last valid ...
Inaccessible directory: '-not-ready-'
Not ready, disconnected LAN, unrecognized filesystem,
or mistyped directory name. Revert to last valid ...
Inaccessible directory: '-not-ready-'
Not ready, disconnected LAN, unrecognized filesystem,
or mistyped directory name. Revert to last valid ...
Inaccessible directory: '-not-ready-'
Not ready, disconnected LAN, unrecognized filesystem,
or mistyped directory name. Revert to last valid ...
DFSee version 17.0 2022-10-25 (c) 1994-2022: Jan van Wijk
=========================[ www.dfsee.com ]==========================
DFSee Win32 17.0 : executing: runscript proftemp.dfs
Command timestamp : Monday 2023-01-02 12:02:56
Profile template! : Update + rename to profile.dfs to setup DFSee to your liking
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
DFSee invocation : C:\Program Files (x86)\Fsys Software\DFSee\bin\DFSWIN.EXE
Working directory : C:\Program Files (x86)\Fsys Software\DFSee\bin
Fsys Software - https: //www.dfsee.com
DFSee Win32 : 17.0 2022-10-25 (c) 1994-2022: Jan van Wijk (32-bit)
TxWin UI Lib : 7.00 2021-02-28 (c) 1995-2021: Fsys Software
OS version : Windows-10 Unknown version, possible preview Build 19045
Current user : vwu72, on DESKTOP-07KAE3Q, running 64-bit Windows
Additional copyright notices listed with HELP, use <F1>
OPEN SOURCE edition, no registration required
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
DFSee Win32 17.0 : executing: map
Command timestamp : Monday 2023-01-02 12:02:57
+-[MBR disk 1]--[/dev/sda]--[SCSI KINGSTON S]-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| | |+===============================================================================================================+| ||
| | || || ||
|m|1 ||1 ||7 ||
|b| ||C: || ||
|r|FreeSp||NTFS ||FreeSpace Pri/Log ||
| | || || ||
| | || || ||
| | |+===============================================================================================================+| ||
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+-[MBR disk 2]--[/dev/sdb]--[SCSI ST1000DM00]-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| | |+=================+| |+==========================================++===========================================================+========================================================================================| ||
| | || || || || |+--------------------------------------------------++----------------------------------+| ||
|m|2 ||2 ||3 ||3 ||4 ||5 ||6 ||8 ||
|b| || || ||D: ||F: || || || ||
|r|Free||FAT16 ||Free||NTFS ||NTFS ||EXT4 ||SWAP ||Part||
| | ||DellUtility || ||RECOVERY ||OS || ||SWAPSPACE2 || ||
| |ace || ||ace || || |+--------------------------------------------------++----------------------------------+|l Cy||
| |Wast|+=================+|Wast|+==========================================++===========================================================+========================================================================================|lind||
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
DFSee Win32 17.0 : executing: display
Command timestamp : Monday 2023-01-02 12:02:57
Current display is: 237 columns x 73 rows = 17301 cells
ReadWrite Store A : PhysDisk : 1 PartId 00 = -- mode=FDISK 20230102-120257
RC:0 <Enter> : 0x00000000 up=0x00000000 this=0x00000000 Base=0x00000000 Xtra=0x1BF244AF
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
DFSee version 17.0 2022-10-25 (c) 1994-2022: Jan van Wijk
=========================[ www.dfsee.com ]==========================
DFSee Win32 17.0 : executing: runscript proftemp.dfs
Command timestamp : Monday 2023-01-02 12:29:09
Profile template! : Update + rename to profile.dfs to setup DFSee to your liking
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
DFSee invocation : C:\Program Files (x86)\Fsys Software\DFSee\bin\DFSWIN.EXE
Working directory : C:\Program Files (x86)\Fsys Software\DFSee\bin
Fsys Software - https: //www.dfsee.com
DFSee Win32 : 17.0 2022-10-25 (c) 1994-2022: Jan van Wijk (32-bit)
TxWin UI Lib : 7.00 2021-02-28 (c) 1995-2021: Fsys Software
OS version : Windows-10 Unknown version, possible preview Build 19045
Current user : vwu72, on DESKTOP-07KAE3Q, running 64-bit Windows
Additional copyright notices listed with HELP, use <F1>
OPEN SOURCE edition, no registration required
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
DFSee Win32 17.0 : executing: map
Command timestamp : Monday 2023-01-02 12:29:09
+-[MBR disk 1]--[/dev/sda]--[SCSI KINGSTON S]--------------------------------------------------------------+
| | |+====================================================+| ||
| | || || ||
|m|1 ||1 ||7 ||
|b| ||C: || ||
|r|Free||NTFS ||FreeSpace Pri/Log ||
| | || || ||
| |ace || || ||
| |Prim|+====================================================+| ||
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+-[MBR disk 2]--[/dev/sdb]--[SCSI ST1000DM00]----------------------------------------------------------------+
| | |+========+| |+==================++===========================+=======================================| ||
| | || || || || |+---------------------++--------------+| ||
|m|2 ||2 ||3 ||3 ||4 ||5 ||6 ||8 ||
|b| || || ||D: ||F: || || || ||
|r|Fre||FAT16 ||Fre||NTFS ||NTFS ||EXT4 ||SWAP ||Par||
| | ||DellUtil|| ||RECOVERY ||OS || ||SWAPSPACE2 || ||
| |ace|| ||ace|| || |+---------------------++--------------+|l C||
| |Was|+========+|Was|+==================++===========================+=======================================|lin||
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
DFSee Win32 17.0 : executing: display
Command timestamp : Monday 2023-01-02 12:29:09
Current display is: 120 columns x 30 rows = 3600 cells
ReadWrite Store A : PhysDisk : 1 PartId 00 = -- mode=FDISK 20230102-122909
RC:0 <Enter> : 0x00000000 up=0x00000000 this=0x00000000 Base=0x00000000 Xtra=0x1BF244AF
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1
Post #7 & post #9 have the same dates in the pastes, so both came from the same file, and omit the table we need to see. The part needed should start out roughly similar to what follows:
Code:
DFSee Linux 17.0 : executing: part
Command timestamp : Monday 2023-01-03 02:14:03
+---+--+--+-----------------+--------+--------+-----------+----------------------------------------+-----------+
|ID |ux|Dr|Type, description|Format |Related |VolumeLabel|OS2-LVM/BM / GPT / Crypt / additional in| Size MiB |
+--[/dev/nvme0n1 GPT disk 1]--------+--------+-----------[TEAM TM8FP6256G ]-------------------+-----------+
|01 | | |Fsp + GPT hdr/pta|-- -- --|-- -- --|- - - - - -|Size 0x7de sectors | 1.0|
|01 | 1| |EFI System (ESP)|FAT32 |mkfs.fat|TM8P01ESP |TM8P01 EFI System (ESP) | 320.0|
|02 | 2| |Linux Swap |SWAP |LinuxV1 |SWAPSPACE2 |TM8P02 Linux Swap | 1752.0|
|03 | 3| |Linux Data |EXT2 |Linux |tm8p03res |TM8P03 Linux reservation | 400.0|
|04 | 4| |Linux Data |EXT4 |Linux |tm8p04usrlc|TM8P04 Linux /usr/local | 4000.0|
|05 | 5| |Linux Data |EXT4 |Linux |tm8p05home |TM8P05 Linux /home | 6400.0|
|06 | 6| |Linux Data |EXT4 |Linux |tm8p06pub |TM8P06 Linux /pub | 12600.0|
Suggest using the Deepin stable iso 20.8 not the 23 alpha iso.
So, the issue is for the 23 version only? The 20.x version can't be upgraded to the 23 version without removing the 20.x version first according to Deepin website.
Post #7 & post #9 have the same dates in the pastes, so both came from the same file, and omit the table we need to see. The part needed should start out roughly similar to what follows:...
I copied the wrong output file. Sorry for the mistake. I must be quite tired at the time. It shall be the following:
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