Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot
Dan Norton composed on 2017-12-21 14:07 (UTC-0500):
> 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.
Except with a first Linux installation, I tell the partitioner not to use swap,
then add it by LABEL to fstab after installing. The problem is that the
installer insists that the swap partition needs to be formatted, destroying the
validity of swap's UUID in the fstabs of the previous installations.
> 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.
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