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Hi !
I'm renting a server with one-provider (OVH).

I have a choice of OS and it does a great job running Debian Buster.
But...

The "standard" installation give me one partition in RAID mirror ( 3 x 2
To). So I get only a big root partition and nothing else....

I don't have access to my server with a KVM, so all has to be done thru
the network using a recovery (rescue) option. That is, I was able to
reboot in rescue mode, use debootstrap to populate a new system.

Where it did fail was for the reboot.

The machine doesn't seem to use EFI (like most server) and I only see
the following partition using the automatic installer.

root@polynamaude:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 1.8 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: HGST HUS724020AL
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: CCB4C5CB-BB03-4D36-B307-AF5B5BF830A1

Device          Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1          34       2008       1975 987.5K BIOS boot
/dev/sda2        2009 3905976495 3905974487   1.8T Linux RAID
/dev/sda3  3905976496 3907025071    1048576   512M Linux filesystem
/dev/sda4  3907025072 3907029134       4063     2M Linux filesystem

So I can see it's a gpt table....
But I get a bit lost when it's time to use grub to setup my machine by
remote.

Someone has a clue ?

Yes it's not a huge power horse but I plan to make it usable as a mirror
for the community (Debian) so help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

-- 
Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside
-Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development

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