[TriLUG] I "discovered" a bug! ( continued )

[John Franklin via TriLUG]

NovaLUG had a brilliant EFI and GPT presentation about 18 months ago.  It’s up on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRGDXy65Plg <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRGDXy65Plg>  I recommend watching it.

No, you can’t make the /boot the EFI partition anymore than you can install the MBR in /boot.  Yes, EFI has to be FAT, because that’s what the firmware can read.  It’ll be separate from /boot.

jf
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John Franklin
franklin at elfie.org



> On Nov 28, 2018, at 3:59 PM, Brian McCullough via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 10:24:04PM -0500, Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list wrote:
>> I find it remarkable that 18.04 has so many problems. This is the worst I've seen with ubuntu. FWIW, this bug is acknowledged at
> 
> OK.  So, giving up on Ubuntu ( LTS !! ), I burned a Debian 9.6.0 ISO and
> started to install it.
> 
> FINALLY, after several iterations, fighting EFI partitions, I have a
> working system again.
> 
> I eventually, after doing some reading, and apparently managing to
> disable the UEFI on this machine,  which will never run another
> operating system, I managed to get the Debian Installer to complete.
> 
> However, that was not a working system, yet.  I still needed to go into
> Rescue mode, and tell it to re-install GRUB to get it to the point where
> it would boot successfully.
> 
> Along the way, I had tried to tell it to use my 250-or-so MB /boot
> partition as the EFI partition, but that didn't work.  That was while I
> was still trying to build an UEFI machine.  There was some message about
> not being able to create a FAT filesystem on that partition.   ???
> 
> 
> In any case, I created new LVs for Root, USR and VAR, and added in my
> existing /home partition while I was doing the Debian install.  Now I
> just have to re-add all of my other LVs and I expect to have a working
> system again.
> 
> 
> This has been MUCH more painful than I expected.
> 
> 
> Onward.....
> 
> 
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
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