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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#35852: Disk device disappears before installer can mount it
Date: Sat, 25 May 2019 19:28:47 +0200
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To: Graham Lee <graham@iamleeg.com>
Cc: 35852@debbugs.gnu.org

Hello Graham,

Graham Lee <graham@iamleeg.com> skribis:

> To recap, I=E2=80=99m choosing the guided partition scheme, with everythi=
ng in a single partition. The installer proposes a reasonable scheme: it ke=
eps my EFI partition, then a big e4fs, then a Linux swap partition.
> I accept that, and go through connecting to a network, setting root passw=
ord, adding a user, and choosing desktop and daemon packages. Then the next=
 error.
>
>> In procedure mount: mount =E2=80=9C/dev/sda1=E2=80=9D on =E2=80=9C/mnt/b=
oot/efi=E2=80=9D: No such device
>
> Indeed if I press OK and rerun to the installer, then the next time it ge=
ts to the partition page it won=E2=80=99t see the SSD. It doesn=E2=80=99t g=
et detected again until a reboot.
>
> The SSD is Samsung SSD PM871 mSATA 256GB

So IIUC, the SSD is initially detected correctly, which allows you to
partition it, but later on /dev/sda1 =E2=80=9Cdisappears=E2=80=9D, right?

Could it be that =E2=80=9C/dev/sda1=E2=80=9D is actually the wrong device n=
ame?  What
does =E2=80=98mount=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98fdisk -l /dev/sda=E2=80=99 show, =
once you=E2=80=99ve got the error
message?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.