If you meant sgdisk, both gdisk and sgdisk by default do 1 MB alignment unless you explicitly override it. util-linux-ng's cfdisk, sfdisk or even fdisk should not come up when GPT is chosen. Only gdisk should come up. None of the main fdisk utils support GPT.
gdisk by default uses 2048 sector alignment for 512-byte sector drives which translates to 1 MB alignment.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux … tor-disks/ - witten by gdisk author Rod Smith.
http://rodsbooks.com/gdisk/booting.html - in the case of GRUB2, the BIOS Boot Partition can be quite small—perhaps as small as 32KiB, although I recommend making it 100-200 KiB, if possible
I recommend 1 MB.
]]>Also in case of autoprepare HDD, what partition alignment is being used. Considering the release of 4096-byte sector HDDs (Advanced format drives), I think a 1MB alignment will prevent any future performance issues and in any case no CHS issues exist, atleast in case of GPT.
]]>Another Q : Which file should I use to create a x86_64 only Archboot iso (not dual arch) or how should I modify archboot-allinone.sh to remove i686 related stuff and LTS kernels related stuff? Thank you.
archboot-allinone.sh archboot-svn.sh archboot-testing-package.sh copy-mountpoint.sh
archboot-find-changes.sh archboot-tarball-helper.sh archboot-usbimage-helper.sh
So all is fine, ftp installation mode got some important correction in git tree to have a smooth installation on next iso.
]]>- cannot confirm setup entering, it does it as usual after hitting enter on first login shell.
- empty config files can only happen if nothing is mounted during installation
ok
-iso image downloaded (with torrent it is difficult to find seeders/leachers )
- installation mode : ftp
- I again confirm the behaviour of dropping to installation environment
here is the video taken during installation
- now config files are ok.
- in the earlier release also i mentioned about the modules array
ie instead of
MODULES=(!8139too !mii !iwl3945 !iwlcore !pcspkr !snd-mixer-oss !snd-pcm-oss !snd-hwdep !snd-page-alloc !snd-pcm !snd-timer !snd !snd-hda-codec !snd-hda-intel !soundcore 8139too mii iwl3945 iwlcore pcspkr snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-codec snd-hda-intel soundcore)
will not the MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes" alone work?
remaining everything went smooth.
thanks.
Any plans to add (U)EFI booting support in Archboot (UEFI without fallback bios support).
I opened a support request for UEFI support in the bugtracker at http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20419.
]]>tpowa wrote:ok btrfs subvolume issue is solved, it was a missing check in extlinux.
For all here, extlinux doesn't support pure subvolume btrfs!
You need a separate /boot partition!btw. syslinux (without extlinux) warned me about that. It continued but it warned me that it wont work...
Syslinux should abort immediatly, you have no vfat partition selected to install on.
]]>ok btrfs subvolume issue is solved, it was a missing check in extlinux.
For all here, extlinux doesn't support pure subvolume btrfs!
You need a separate /boot partition!
btw. syslinux (without extlinux) warned me about that. It continued but it warned me that it wont work...
]]>Do you select install packages too? Does pacman output anything?
This weekend I will download the image again and report back.
]]>it just annoying that he installed everything into ext2_saved instead of / so i had to move the whole system out of ext2_saved to /
also i had to adjust the /etc/fstab to remove the subvolume option from mount
i also had to remove the subvolume option from syslinux but i do it every boot by hand cause i have no clue where the syslinux.cfg file is gone...
found it /boot/extlinux.cfg
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