On 21/01/15 01:09 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
What did you expect? If you change the partition start point, the superblock won't be in the correct location.On Tuesday 20 January 2015 19:17:59 Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply:On Wednesday 21 January 2015 00:02:41 Gene Heskett wrote: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.Since the problem seems to be unique to you, perhaps your installation media are faulty? I assume you checked? Which CD/DVD did you use? I have never had any difficulty using existing partitions and just assigning them, and formatting or not at my choice, and have installed wheezy quite often, both using existing partitions and creating new ones. I don't have a spare computer on which to install Wheezy at the moment, to give you your step by step directions. I am about to install Jessie, but that might be different. Anyway, if you have it installed, perhaps you could just live with it. LisiNot installed Lisi, I tried to fix the miss-alignment with gdisk, and it blew the install away. It of course has big red warning signs, so I wasn't surprised.
Because gdisk uses GPT while fdisk only knows about the older MBR partitioning scheme.Now I have partitioned and formatted the drive again, making sure that everytime it auto-checks round to cylinders, I turn it off, and gdisk is happy as a clam. I will try another install tomorrow. Then, checking with fdisk, only the first partition was visible, and it was the whole drive. WTH??
Again, 50G for /boot and swap is just way too large. I have 16G of RAM and my swap file hardly gets touched. I prefer keeping /boot as part of / and doing without a swap partition. A swap file is similar in speed and easier to adjust if needed.e2fsck bombed on any formatted but partition I sicced it after, so gparted is busy reformatting it yet again. 50Gb /boot, 50Gb swap, 50Gb /, and the remainder as /home. Cheers, Gene Heskett