Re: BIOS Boot partition

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 07/18/2016 01:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016, 1:40 PM Samuel Sieb > > wrote: >> Since you are creating a bios boot partition, you must be using the >> non-GPT partition table. >> >> BIOS

Re: BIOS Boot partition

On 07/18/2016 01:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2016, 1:40 PM Samuel Sieb mailto:sam...@sieb.net>> wrote: Since you are creating a bios boot partition, you must be using the non-GPT partition table. BIOS Boot is where the core.img is embedded when using GPT partitioning with

Re: BIOS Boot partition

On Mon, 2016-07-18 at 20:04 +, Chris Murphy wrote: > Use gdisk, partition type code EF02. Do this on both disks, install > normally, post install do > > grub2-install /dev/SDA /dev/and > > Done. > Setting the partition type using gdisk was the necessary step to make  grub2-install happy. I

Re: BIOS Boot partition

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016, 1:40 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > Since you are creating a bios boot partition, you must be using the > non-GPT partition table. BIOS Boot is where the core.img is embedded when using GPT partitioning with BIOS firmware. --- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fed

Re: BIOS Boot partition

Use gdisk, partition type code EF02. Do this on both disks, install normally, post install do grub2-install /dev/SDA /dev/and Done. --- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/use

Re: BIOS Boot partition

On 07/18/2016 12:05 PM, Oliver Paukstadt wrote: I did a f24 installation using swraid on 4TB disks (predefined swraid because I am still unhappy with complex tasks and the level disk abstraction in anaconda, but thats not the point). I assume you are using raid on the individual partitions and n

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

On 08/31/14 21:27, Chris Murphy wrote: On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: ... Yes, that was my intention, raid1 for /boot and raid6 for / Accidentally I set /boot also to raid6 :) But that can be fixed. Or do n-way raid1, which will cause /boot to have as many copies

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 08/28/14 20:21, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:10:54 -0700, >> Rick Stevens wrote: >>> >>> I think you need to reserve some small space on all the drives (and >>> with 3TB drives you can afford to sacrifice a f

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > I think using raid 1 (with the 1.0 header format) can work well for that. > There can still grub issues with having a boot just work, but at least you > have the stuff you need available. GRUB2 can locate vmlinuz/initramfs on md/mdadm r

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

On Aug 28, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > Hi! > > I tried to set up a system using four 3TB disks as a raid6. The disks are > new, no old partitions laying around. I used a USB stick as install media > (Fedora 20 x86_64 Gnome Live). > > I chose manual partitioning to get ever

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

> > On my old system I use 1TB disks, with /boot as raid1, and grub > boot-loader installed on all disks. On that one I can boot the system > from any of disks. Which is quite handy. > > The problem here seem to be that due to the disks being large (larger > than 1TB) they are setup as GPT (GU

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

On 08/28/14 20:21, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:10:54 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: I think you need to reserve some small space on all the drives (and with 3TB drives you can afford to sacrifice a few MB), use the remainder as your RAID, and let the system put the boot par

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:10:54 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: I think you need to reserve some small space on all the drives (and with 3TB drives you can afford to sacrifice a few MB), use the remainder as your RAID, and let the system put the boot partition in that reserved space on the primary

Re: BIOS boot partition, 4x3TB disks, and raid, problems with anaconda

On 08/28/2014 10:48 AM, Lars E. Pettersson issued this missive: Hi! I tried to set up a system using four 3TB disks as a raid6. The disks are new, no old partitions laying around. I used a USB stick as install media (Fedora 20 x86_64 Gnome Live). I chose manual partitioning to get everything as

Re: Bios boot partition question

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 04:44:11PM -0800, Bryce Hardy wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > All excellent questions which I would have thought deserved at least > > a bit of text in the release notes rather than just firing a barrel > > full of acronyms at you :-). >

Re: Bios boot partition question

On 11/14/2011 05:54 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:11:03 + > Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> Now, I gather from the text above that the boot partition is necessary only >> for "non-EFI" systems with a "GPT-labelled" disk. What does this mean? How >> can >> I check whether my sy

Re: Bios boot partition question

On Sunday 13 November 2011 19:24:19 Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:11:03 + Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Now, I gather from the text above that the boot partition is necessary > > only for "non-EFI" systems with a "GPT-labelled" disk. What does this > > mean? How can I check whether m

Re: Bios boot partition question

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > All excellent questions which I would have thought deserved at least > a bit of text in the release notes rather than just firing a barrel > full of acronyms at you :-). Even worse, the official Installation Guide for F16 doesn't even mention

Re: Bios boot partition question

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:11:03 + Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Now, I gather from the text above that the boot partition is necessary only > for "non-EFI" systems with a "GPT-labelled" disk. What does this mean? How > can > I check whether my system is EFI or no, and whether the disk is using GPT