Installer Can't Create Partition
I am trying to install Manjaro Openbox from a USB stick on an Asus X200CA laptop, using Manjaro's built in installer Calamares. I have tried different ISO downloads written to different USB sticks but I keep getting this message:
Installation Failed The installer failed to create a partition table on HGST545050A7E680 --------------- Create a new partition table (type: gpt) on 'dev/sda’ -------------------- Job: Create new partition table on device "/dev/sda’ ------------------- Command: sfdisk /dev/sda Any advice on how to resolve this? |
If it has windows installed go into settings>power>advance-settings turn off fast-boot, There maybe a fast-boot setting in bios that needs to be turned off also.
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the installer maybe activating the swap partition, if so run swap off if this is happening and make sure all other partitions on the drive are not mounted.
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It means that is where the root filesystem is mounted, on the first partition of the drive. It appears that everything is on one partition, except for the swap. Did you actually boot from the installer, or is that info from booting into the Parabola installation?
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That terminal print out is from the Parabola install. What is so puzzling about this is that I have previously installed other OS on this laptop, including Parabola, in exactly the same way that won't work now - i.e. I download an ISO, write it to a USB and install.
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When booted into the installer, make sure no partitions are mounted and the swap partition isn't being used by the installer.
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- prompts me to choose either auto partitioning or manual; - when I choose auto, I am prompted to select "no swap" or "swap, no hibernate" or "swap, with hibernate"; - I have been choosing "swap, no hibernate" - it then does something called "Scanning partitions" for a few minutes before beginning the actual install attempt. |
The swap choices determine the size of the swap partition. Hibernating takes more space, so that will make the largest swap partition, at least the size of the RAM installed. No hibernate should make ~4GB of swap. Which to choose is your decision. I don't know why the installer would be having problems, unless there is a problem with the drive.
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~ >>> swapon --show ~ >>> lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT loop0 7:0 0 70M 1 loop /run/miso/sfs/livefs loop1 7:1 0 306.4M 1 loop /run/miso/sfs/mhwdfs loop2 7:2 0 556.2M 1 loop /run/miso/sfs/desktopfs loop3 7:3 0 586.1M 1 loop /run/miso/sfs/rootfs sda 8:0 0 465.8G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 457.5G 0 part └─sda2 8:2 0 8.2G 0 part sdb 8:16 1 7.5G 0 disk ├─sdb1 8:17 1 1.6G 0 part /run/miso/bootmnt └─sdb2 8:18 1 4M 0 part ~ >>> |
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using Manjaro's built in installer Calamares |
Did a test in a vm, had same problem What I did was use gparted on the iso to create a new partition table before starting the installer. What I don't understand is why the installer is attempting to create a new gpt table instead of msdos when there is no efi partition or bios-grub partition in the original partition layout. Post the output of
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