Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 13:33:43 Lisi Reisz did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:37:30 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings;
> >
> > I just started to do a wheezy 2.8
>
> Doesn't exist. Do you mean 7.8? And which disk?
Yeah, sorry girl, but typus are the order when I am not happy, as I just
destroyed the 2nd wheezy install trying to fix the broken partitioning
tools in the installer. They obviously never saw a 4k/sector disk before
in their lives. The MBR they left behind when I finally just said godoit,
gives any partitioning tool an exedrine headache.
>
> > install on a disk with 4k sectors, this
> > after researching and finding a partitioner utility that DOES know
> > about 4k/sector disks. That is gdisk. which found the gparted setup
> > and fixed it, all I had to do was write it to the disk., gparted, an
> > old version is not capable of aligning things correctly.
> >
> > So the disk is all partitioned and formatted but empty.
> >
> > Now I find I cannot bypass the disk partitioner in the installer, nor
> > can I force it to use these partitions on the hilited drive This
> > is using the installer in "expert" mode.
>
> Don't bypass it. Use it. Just tell it what you want it to do, and it
> will do it. You need at the very least to allocate the partitions.
> You don't have to create or format them.
Lisi, it will NOT do as I tell it even in the expert mode. It, when I try
to get it to do what I want, just loops and keeps asking the same
questions over and over.
It's broken, pure and simple, has no knowledge of a 4k/sector disk, so it
carves up an MBR and partition table so screwed up I doubt it could ever
write more than 6M/sec on a 120M/sec disk. gdisk tried to fix it, but
wound up wiping it out so bad it cannot now find the drive. GParted, a
very old version, can, but its read-only. So it can't even do an e2fsck on
any partition the debian installer created.
>
> > It will not let me change the "do not use" when I hilite a
> > partition and
> >
> > hit enter. It doesn't even acknowledge the mount points "/boot" and
> > "/" already set.
> >
> > This is less than a desirable thing.
> >
> > How can I both bypass the broken partitioner, AND force it to use the
> > partitions it finds on the hilited drive?
>
> There isn't a problem with the Wheezy partitioner. You can use it or
> not as you choose. See my comment above.
You cannot NOT use it, it refuses to proceed to the next, format the
partitions step.
> Sorry, Gene. This really does look like PEBKAC. The partitioner is
> fine.
No PEBKAC, I've now tried to bypass the installers partitioner 4 times
after having set the drive up correctly with tools that do know about
4k/sector drives
No its not, it is not even remotely aware of the alignment requirements
needed to use a 4k/sector drive at full speed.
The drive technology moves on, but those tools are stuck in 2010 maybe?
If there is a way, then maybe I'll try it again, but give me step by step
I can printout and follow when there is no one in the room, or available
via the net.
> Lisi
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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