Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails
On Friday, 10 June 2022 02:45:20 EDT gene heskett wrote:
> On Friday, 10 June 2022 00:45:19 EDT David Wright wrote:
> > On Thu 09 Jun 2022 at 23:59:06 (-0400), gene heskett wrote:
> > > On Thursday, 9 June 2022 21:13:53 EDT mick crane wrote:
> > > > On 2022-06-09 22:15, gene heskett wrote:
> > > > > Posted once as the original .png of 81k, that didn't get thru
> > > > > the
> > > > > server,
> > > > > then I loaed it up in gimp and smunched it down to about 51k,
> > > > > ugly
> > > > > but
> > > > > still readable, and thats not made it thru the server either.
> > > >
> > > > Screenshot_1.jpg(~61 KB) was attached to your previous mail.
> > > > Noticed as you say that 3 disks were scsi7.
> > >
> > > That screenshot never came back to here.
> >
> > Is that perhaps because you sent it? (One of the big complaints about
> > some MUAs and some email providers.)
>
> The second one did come back so I assume it was seen but kmails ability
> to find your own echo's in a mailing list folder are definitly not its
> strong point. The scroll scrolls too far per click, going right on by
> your posts echos. Pretty high torr rating for that suckage. ;o(>
> > > In the meantime, I have
> > > partitioned and formatted that new drive as ext4, gpt partition
> > > with
> > > gparted, the whole drive, then printed the info for it from fdisk,
> > > which give the UUID's, 2 different ones, so which should I see in
> > > the d-i partitioner, the type-UUID or just the UUID, they are
> > > different numbers, fdisk's info also shows the label as Name:
> > > slash26, and its is currently /dev/sdd1, but who knows what it
> > > might
> > > be to the installer? I'll plug in the drive with the d-i in it, and
> > > retry right now.
> >
> > I don't recall seeing UUIDs in the d-i, perhaps because they're so
> > long. I usually see the entries from /dev/disk/by-id/, or part
> > thereof.
> There weren't any, but dmesg from another shell allowed me to ID the
> proper drive. So it now has a 1 partition install on it that won't
> boot. boot flag is set. And me is puzzled. boot files too far into the
> drive maybe?
>
Based on that theory, I may repartition that drive with a 4gig /boot and
the rest as one big / one, I have run into that a few times before.
> Thanks David.
>
> > But bear in mind that /dev/disk/ can be fully listed by the d-i from
> > the very start, by switching to a shell on Alt-F2/3.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > David.
> >
> > .
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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