Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails
On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 07:13:38AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> On Friday, 10 June 2022 08:23:26 EDT gene heskett wrote:
> > 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:
> > > >
> > > > 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.
>
> But thats not long enough to show whats beyond the samsung 870, their's
> another alpha label that I'ds the tech in the drive, which in this case
> would be positive ID of the correct drive, letters QVC, not EVO like the
> earlier production raid drives which are all EVO's. This drive I am
> trying to use for the next install, is plugged into the socket labeled
> SATA6G_5 on this Z370-AII motherboard. Is this a problem? IDK.
> > >
Shouldn't be.
Are you using UEFI / legacy MBR/BIOS to boot this drive ?
You can use a completely blank drive: although others suggest using gparted
or similar beforehand, the partitioner is smart enough to do it for itself.
Grub is the _last_ thing to be written, more or less.
Grub-efi requires an ESP partition - which is FAT formatted - at the beginning
of the disk and the rest can happily be one large LVM drive.
Note: For Bullseye, the default swap size is 1G. That shouldn't matter to you
because you have swap on your RAID.
> >
> > 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.
>
That's effectively what LVM will do for you ...
> Welp, I did that, but the installer refuses to set the bootable flag on
> that drive, it blinks the remote screen, but when its repainted, its
> still off. I went thru the loop, even made a new gpt partition table, but
> no joy. and all I have to show for it is a 5 megabyte plus jpeg from my
> camera so you'll just have to take my word for it.
>
See above: how are you installing?
> I've not had a problem setting the bootable flag before. What might be
> the reason?
>
> And it took 3 passes to get rebooted to the old drive because something
> happened to the raid but it apparently fixed itself. The bios, apparently
> didn't see /dev/sda at all the first time, and it wasn't touched that I
> know of.
>
> Thanks all, David Wright in particular.
>
> > > 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.
>
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
>
So: under UEFI boot and (encrypted) LVM, I have a partition layout
something like this:
537M - FAT - at the very beginning of the disk - the ESP partition - mounted
as /boot/efi
512M - ext2 - mounted as /boot
998G - LVM
1G swap
Hope this helps, as ever,
Andy Cater
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