elementary
installer crashes / blanks when detecting partitioning scheme
What Happened?
Hello, my problem might be same as in #848, but I did not find a takeaway solution there, just an explanation. I have a maybe messy partitioning configuration. There is a windows 11 installation I want to keep. Then there is a partition I want to use for elementary os, labelled /. And then there are a number of small partitions whose use I am not sure of; whether they belong to the windows installation or a former elementary os installation (which at some point refused to boot). But I did not dare delete any of them. Anyway, the installer crashes when trying to detect these. This is reproducable. I think it started crashing when I labelled one partition /. It proved possible to install another linux (siduction). But I'd rather go with elementary, so any help would be appreciated! Kind regards, Felix
Steps to Reproduce
- booted elementary 8.0 iso usb stick, go through first stages of installer until detection of partitioning scheme
- renamed one partition manually to /
- since then the automatic detection crashes.
Expected Behavior
installer continues it's work.
OS Version
8.x (Circe)
Session Type
Classic Session (X11, This is the default)
Software Version
Latest release (I have run all updates)
Log Output
Hardware Info
No response
What I do first of all, before starting with any linux distro, is shrink my Windows partition (or if you have multiple partitions, like C:, D: etc) from within Windows itself using the Disk Management tool.
I then boot into elementary OS (make sure you download the latest ISO build from the main website elementary.io) installer and go into custom install, run the partitioning tool there, create another ESP (EFI system partition) with generous size (1 GB here) min is I think 256 or 512mb I dont remember.
Then I create my other partition(s) intended to be used as root ext4 - for more elaborate configs - you should be able to figure it out.
Then back to the installer, click the EFI/ESP and select "use this" and "format" (if you are using it for the first time, else DO NOT format the EFI/ESP) and mount to /boot/efi, then the other root ext4 click it and select "USE THIS" and "FORMAT" as ext4 - I've not tried others like btrfs or encryption etc.
The installation should go through now and when reboot you should get the GRUB boot selection menu with elementary and windows and any others in the list.
Good luck.
@vjr am i out of luck, if i cannot delete my other partitions? i only have space for and can accommodate a single partition for elementaryOS. For me the crash is right after the loading state of finding drives or something when custom install is selected.
