On 12/21/2017 04:36 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Felix Miata composed on 2017-11-29 13:55 (UTC-0500):Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-28 22:15 (UTC-0500):dan@debian8:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: A615A904-0620-459F-BF44-5E53E54FDF24 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 411647 409600 200M BIOS boot /dev/sda2 411648 16783359 16371712 7.8G Linux swap /dev/sda3 16783360 151001087 134217728 64G Linux LVM /dev/sda4 151001088 285218815 134217728 64G Linux LVM /dev/sda5 285218816 419436543 134217728 64G Linux LVM /dev/sda6 419436544 553654271 134217728 64G Linux LVM /dev/sda7 553654272 1953525134 1399870863 667.5G Linux filesystem Is there a problem here?Maybe. I don't have any GPT-partitioned disks...No longer the case. I bought a G250 Kaby Lake Intel motherboard. I currently have Stretch, openSUSE Tumbleweed and openSUSE 15.0 Alpha installed. openSUSE 42.3's installer hangs in the bootloader configuration step. https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1073201 http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/gb250L02.txt is my partition log. The upper part is generated by the partitioner I use. The bottom is gpart -l output for comparison. I haven't seen you post the debian-user list in a while. How's multiboot going for you?
Not bad, actually. I'm nearly ready to try multiboot with GPT again on my (elderly) HP desktop machine. It only has a 1T sda, but that seems like wretched excess.
Currently jessie, stretch, and buster are installed with primary/logical partitioning. Each is in a separate volume group, with logical volumes for /, /var, /tmp, /home, and swap. IMHO, the following guidelines are helpful:
1. Do all partitioning with the installer. Don't try to prepare the EFI for example with other partitioners. Partitioning can be daunting, but if you patiently and sometimes repeatedly use the installer UI, you can set up the desired partitioning. The installer UI could be improved. :-)
2. You will make extra work for yourself by having a common swap partition for all installations. With the common swap, each new installation gave rise to these messages:
a. "gave up waiting for suspend/resume device" b. "a start job is running for dev-disk-by\..." c. "failed to connect to lvmetad"STW can reveal ways to avoid these messages, but they are a PITA and avoidable by each volume group having its own swap.
There are still mysteries I have not solved. For some reason, GRUB has decided that after POST, you only need 3 seconds to choose which installation to boot. GRUB has resisted my efforts to change that timeout value. I've been able to change the boot order in NVRAM, but not the timeout.
Before moving on to multiboot with LVM and GPT, I'd like to change the menu entries to something more consistent. The last install is referred to as "Debian GNU/Linux" but that's ambiguous. Which Debian GNU/Linux? If each entry was in the form "Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) (on /dev/mapper/vol2-root)" that would really be explicit. Also I want some more time to mull over which to boot.
- Dan