[ale] VOID linux, was: Re: Origins of Linux, do we care?

[Steve Litt]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 19:31:47 -0400
Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/20/2015 12:40 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Void has really sucky documentation, making it almost impossible to
> > do it right the first time. So when (notice I don't say if) your
> > Void install fails to reboot, what you need to do is once again
> > boot from DVD (or in qemu from a .iso file), mount, chroot, and do
> > your best to check out your grub.
> 
> I tried to install the I686 void on my older laptop that is dual-boot
> XP/Ubuntu. I have an existing /dev/sda2 "/" and /dev/sda5 /home.
> when I got to the part about void partitioning. I selected sda2, and
> whether I selected format or not, every time I said OK, it flashed to
> a terminal window with an LVMetads error... something about it being
> locked & needed to be restarted.. not sure how I could do that in the
> middle of the install script.
> it failed.

Hi Paul,

First thing I'd check is to try to figure out what partitioning
software void-installer is using. Then take that same program (probably
cfdisk) and see how it works outside the environment of void-installer.
In other words, boot the live DVD and then just run cfdisk /dev/sda2 or
whatever.

If cfdisk from the command prompt fails in a similar way, try it from
another live distro (I recommend System Rescue CD). Maybe you have an
alignment issue or something.

Also, from the error message, I assume you're using LVM. If not, that's
a hint.

Bottom line though, if void-installer absolutely won't work,
instructions exist how to chroot install Void. It's not easy, and
there's some trial and error, but it's doable, and you can use any darn
partitioning software you want (or simply skip partitioning if you have
partitions: Just mk2fs them and adjust the chrooted /etc/fstab
accordingly.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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