Reinstall bubba

[hawkman]

Hello,

I have installed a new disk in my B3. I am trying to install the image by following the manual.
I unzipped the install files to a usb-stick. But when booting B3 with the usb-stick inserted, the LED is only green for a short while, then it is turning to flashing purple. Does this mean that my stick is not working?
I have tried two different sticks, formatted them in Windows to FAT32 and copied the install files.
I have also tried to prepare the stick with diskpart.

Any suggestions?

/H

[hawkman]

Hello again,

it seems that the usb-stick is used for booting at least.
There is a log file in the stick saying:

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 Check if we have an old lvm disk
  Volume group "bubba" not found
  Skipping volume group bubba
Check if we an old raid disk
Reading external config
Fixing umask
Check for preinst script
No preinst script available
Setting date/time
Connecting to www.excito.com (194.236.32.217:80)

-                      0% |                               |     0  --:--:-- ETA
-                    100% |*******************************|    12  --:--:-- ETA
Mon Feb 28 20:02:00 MST 2011
No LVM attached
No raid devices detected
Partition disk
Error: Partition(s) on /dev/sda are being used.
/usr/sbin/parted: invalid token: root
Error: Expecting a partition type.
/usr/sbin/parted: invalid token: home
Error: Expecting a partition type.
/usr/sbin/parted: invalid token: swap
Error: Expecting a partition type.
Create volume
Error: Partition doesn't exist.
  Device /dev/sda2 not found (or ignored by filtering).
  /dev/sda2 not identified as an existing physical volume
  Unable to add physical volume '/dev/sda2' to volume group 'bubba'.
  Volume group "bubba" not found
Format system disk
/dev/sda1 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!
tune2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda1
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
tune2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
Formatting lvm data partition
Could not stat /dev/mapper/bubba-storage --- No such file or directory

The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?
tune2fs: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/mapper/bubba-storage
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
tune2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
Create swapspace
mkswap: can't open '/dev/sda3': No such file or directory
Install root filesystem
mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /mnt/disk failed: Device or resource busy
mount: mounting /dev/mapper/bubba-storage on /mnt/disk/home failed: No such file or directory
tar: write error: No space left on device
Creating missing devicenodes
mknod: dev/sda: No such file or directory
mknod: dev/sda1: No such file or directory
mknod: dev/sda2: No such file or directory
mknod: dev/sda3: No such file or directory
mknod: dev/sda4: No such file or directory
mknod: dev/sdb: No such file or directory
mknod: dev/sdb1: No such file or directory
mknod: dev/sdb2: No such file or directory
mknod: dev/sdb3: No such file or directory
mknod: dev/sdb4: No such file or directory
mknod: dev/ttyS0: No such file or directory
mknod: dev/rtc: No such file or directory
Check for postinst script
No postinst script available
Umount home install partition
umount: can't umount /mnt/disk/home: Invalid argument
Umount system install partition
umount: can't umount /mnt/disk: Invalid argument
Umount usb storage
umount: can't umount /mnt/usb: Device or resource busy
Install done
Reboot into new system

Do I need to do anything on the new harddrive? Formatting it etc?
Appreciate your help...

/H

[Ubi]

Hi

did you alter anything in the config files (or any other files) that are on the USB disk?

[hawkman]

Nope. Just dowloaded the zip and extracted it to the usb-stick...

/H

[hawkman]

Update:
I manually created 3 partitions. Then the install went ok.
If I look at the bubba.cfg, I assume that it is supposed to both partition and format the drive by default.
Maybe it is not working on a disk "out of the box"?

Anyway, now I have a system up and running again, which is nice

/H

[Ubi]

kinda weird. THe installer should make those partitions for you. But goodo to hear it's working for you now

[paapereira]

Update:
I manually created 3 partitions. Then the install went ok.
If I look at the bubba.cfg, I assume that it is supposed to both partition and format the drive by default.
Maybe it is not working on a disk "out of the box"?

Anyway, now I have a system up and running again, which is nice

/H

Hi,

I'm having the same problem. How did you manually created the 3 partitions?

Thanks

[hawkman]

Hello,

I plugged the disk into my computer (Mac) and created the partitions in disk utility.

/H

[paapereira]

Hello,

I plugged the disk into my computer (Mac) and created the partitions in disk utility.

/H

Ok. So did you pull the disk from the B3 case? Or is there any way to connect B3 directly into a computer?

Thanks for your help!