Bug#717511: Kernel does not start up on Pegasos-2
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:59:18PM +0400, Pavel Fedin wrote:
>> Perhaps Installer should warn about it ?
Yes it would be nice.
On 22/07/13 19:42, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Maybe the installer could warn about a likely broken partition
> layout after you choose manual layout.
It already warns if, for example, you don't create a swap partition.
It also warns about using ZFS on kfreebsd-i386 (on which it is not
suggested to be stable), or using ZFS on kfreebsd-amd64 with less than
512 MiB RAM. So that was probably borrowing the same code.
Some other configurations can lead to a GRUB failure at the end of the
install process; it would be most helpful if the installer warned about
this at the partitioning stage instead:
* gpt disklabel with no BIOS Boot Partition to put GRUB boot blocks;
* (re)using an msdos disklabel with insufficient gap before the first
partition starts (installer now does the right thing and places it after
1 MiB, but only if you're creating the partition or disklabel afresh on
that media);
* /boot on reiserfs (and probably others) AFAIK isn't useful for GRUB,
because it doesn't know how to replay the journal / transaction log; I
think that was also the case for ext3 and ext4 until recent versions,
but I'd still use ext2 for it out of habit.
Regards,
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Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org
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