On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 11:50:02AM -0400, fsmithred wrote: > On 06/10/2017 08:22 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > I have a old laptop with an EFI partition, but it has the old-style > > MBR partitioning structure. The EFI partition was there when it was > > new, together with a Windows XP system (which is no longer there). > > > > As far as I've been able to tell, the contents of that partition is > > garbage. It wasn't even a valid FAT-style file system, as is (or > > used to be?) required by specs. > > > > -- hendrik > > _______________________________________________ > > That might be a good place to practice. If it's HP, you need to do special > things (bootloader must be named Microsoft-something-or-other). If it's > not HP, it still might not be made according to specs. But in theory, you > should be able to wipe the hard drive and install from the devuan > installation media.
It was an ASUS EEEPC -- the first one that needed no proprietary device drivers. And it was possible the first model sold with Windows only. How absurd. > > I don't know if you would be able to plug your raid array into the laptop > and boot from the installed grub. I suppose if you're using uuid to > identify drives, it could work. Knowing that you could do that in an > emergency might give you some peace of mind. Laptop accesses the RAID via ethernet. The RAID is a Linux md device, and uses multiple SATA connections on the server. No such SATA connectons on the laptop. I might be able to connect SATA to the laptop via USB adapters, but that way the boot-time dynamics are starting to look completely different from what I'd have on the server. > > The efi partition should be fat32 with boot and esp flags. 200mb is more > than enough (unless your uefi firmware doesn't like it.) The grub-install > command (with no device named) knows what to do with it. If you use an > encrypted filesystem, you'll still need another partition for /boot. There is an encrypted filesystem, but it is mounted only occasionally, as needed. It's not relevant at boot time. -- hendrik > > fsmithred > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
