On 05/16/2018 02:44 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: > Maybe it wasn't created correctly by partman: > > On [1] Eric has a ca. 7 MiB partition between 1 MiB at the beginning of the > disk and the remainder of the disk. It's garbled on GitHub, so here it is > reformatted: > > ``` > > Number Start End Size File system Name Flags > 1 1049kB 8389kB 7340kB bios_grub bios_grub > 2 8389kB 1151MB 1143MB ext3 boot > 3 1151MB 600GB 599GB lvm > ``` > > [1]: > https://github.com/esnowberg/grub2-sparc/wiki#installation-instructions-for-sparc-t4-and-above > > During my testing end of February/beginning of March this partition was > needed, because otherwise the gpt label was corrupted after grub-install ran > IIRC - i.e. similar to what you saw. I don't know the exact size requirements > for this partition though, so just rounded up to 10 MiB which worked fine.
Ah, this makes sense. I'll see whether I can add this type manually. > I submitted a patch ([2]) which adds specific recipes for gpt capable systems > which add the additional 10 MiB partition. Partman than creates this > partition after the first 1 MiB on the disk in question. The post also > contains an alternative approach which might also work (i.e. just extending > the sparc recipes). Yes, there are some things I wanted to test first before adopting the patch. I don't like it yet as is. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
