Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 17:45:34 mrr did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 20/01/2015 15:40, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings;
> >
> > I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> I'm not sure I understand the latter sentence correctly but in doubt :
> Mount points can't be already set, the logic comes once the
> installation is over (i.e. in grub and in /etc/fstab).
> And if your partitions aren't recognized you can't assign them some
> mount points but maybe that's what you meant!
>
> > 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?
> >
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> I remember I had a similar issue installing debian maybe one year ago.
>
> If I get it right, some partitions created with some tool wasn't
> recognized by the debian installer partitioner (it had something to do
> with gpt & sorry for the lack of precision). What were important is
> that, as you were already advised by other contributors, using the
> debian partitioner had solve the problem.
>
> A 4k/sector value shouldn't raise an issue, well I think fdisk, gdisk,
> parted ... would make their way out of it.
and leave you with a miss-aligned disk that writes like its full of
molsasses. Fdisk complains, gdisk will fix it, but what good does that do
you when there is NO WAY AROUND the partitioner in the installer.
> If partitions aren't aligned (especially bad for SSD) you can do it
> manually e.g. create your 1st partition at sector 256 (x 4k = 1M) for
> example.
>
Difficult to do when the tool does NOT explain what the number its showing
actually represents. You fight with it, getting into a loop because it
doesn't like something, so you sit there and work your way around the
loop, about a 4 step process per loop, until you give up and just let it
do its WRONG thing.
> --
> mrr
Thanks mrr.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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