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
