On Fri 12 Jan 2018 at 06:19:57 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/11/2018 01:43 PM, David Wright wrote: > >On Thu 11 Jan 2018 at 11:10:33 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > >>I multi-boot several varieties of Debian. > >>When booting one specific install, it displays many repetitions of: > >>>>Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done. > > > >>It then proceeds to bring up an apparently normal system. > >[…] > >>sda8 - The problem install is Debian 8. It had been my primary work > >> install until I trashed some data files. It has been kept to > >> reconstruct those files as I have time. > > > >Two questions: When did this start happening? > > Not sure. Noticed it recently after fixing a long standing problem > involving a bad UUID for the swap partition.
Perhaps it's no coincidence then that the Wanderer's earlier forum reference concerns a swap partition's UUID. > Debian installer > automatically changes the swap's UUID when a partition already > identified as "swap partition" is used. I can sort-of see why it's > done, but I find it a *NUISANCE* ;< Workarounds, including mine, have already been posted in response to your earlier threads here on this topic. > >In view of the portion quoted above, why bother? > > A forensic/educational analysis of just what I did to mess up what > had been a nice and well working system. > There may still be useful data there. A forensic analysis of a vague error message (which took a day to be solicited) over this list? Seems unlikely. > Also, there are programs there I use rarely that I don't want to > lose for now, but can't justify adding to current install. When disk > space becomes critical, I'll likely move it to a flash drive. GB/$ disk vs flash is still quite high. Cheers, David.
