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Deploying D4IoT Sensor to ThinkEdge SE40 - No Root Filesystem
In case somebody else runs in to this problem I managed to find a solution in the end.
Basically, the problem is that when you boot from the installation USB media, it names the installation media sda and the internal harddrive sdb in /dev. This properly wouldn’t be the case if you installed from an optical media like AdiWeisberg suggested – but I didn't have access to one and I must admit it's a decade since i've used an optical disk for installation.
So the seed files for autopartitioning only looks for sda and not sdb.
So, by changing line 6 in the seed file corresponding to the solution you want to install (in my case the 100 GB solution, named: preseed/laptop-storage-layout.seed) from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb it installs fine.Edit:
Line 107 in preseed/general.seed should be corrected from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb as well. Else it will install the bootsector on the installation media instead of the installation drive. So when you remove the installation media it won't boot as i just figured out 😉
Hope this can help somebody else.
In case somebody else runs in to this problem I managed to find a solution in the end.
Basically, the problem is that when you boot from the installation USB media, it names the installation media sda and the internal harddrive sdb in /dev. This properly wouldn’t be the case if you installed from an optical media like AdiWeisberg suggested – but I didn't have access to one and I must admit it's a decade since i've used an optical disk for installation.
So the seed files for autopartitioning only looks for sda and not sdb.
So, by changing line 6 in the seed file corresponding to the solution you want to install (in my case the 100 GB solution, named: preseed/laptop-storage-layout.seed) from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb it installs fine.
Edit:
Line 107 in preseed/general.seed should be corrected from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb as well. Else it will install the bootsector on the installation media instead of the installation drive. So when you remove the installation media it won't boot as i just figured out 😉
Hope this can help somebody else.