On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Dhanagopal R <dhanagop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can someone enlighten me on this? Is it mandatory to have all the linux
> partitions as primary for smooth installation?
>
The last I checked, Linux kernel does not care primary/logical. In
the past, I made swap on a partition with id 83 (traditionally for
ext/<whatever FS>) instead of 82 [a]. As long as the entries in
/etc/fstab point to the right device/UUID.
As suggested to you please post results of "sudo [gdisk||parted] -l"
(gdisk is GPT fdisk). IMO, that is a good starting point to figure
out your problem.
FWIW, my laptop is dual boot Win7 Pro + Kubuntu 15.10. I have disabled
UEFI and safe mode.
Here is what I see for my /dev/sda.
<CLI transcript>
$ sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.0
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): DE6E5038-6E07-4471-840F-C0EDFB4C28E9
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 4301 sectors (2.1 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 163842047 78.1 GiB 0700 Basic data partition
2 163842048 164456447 300.0 MiB 2700 Basic data partition
3 164456448 164661247 100.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition
4 164661248 164923391 128.0 MiB 0C01 Microsoft reserved ...
5 164923392 227423391 29.8 GiB 8300
6 227424256 235237375 3.7 GiB 8200
7 235237376 1953523711 819.3 GiB 8300
$ sudo parted -l /dev/sda
Model: ATA HGST HTS541010A7 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name
Flags
1 1049kB 83.9GB 83.9GB ntfs Basic data partition
msftdata
2 83.9GB 84.2GB 315MB ntfs Basic data partition
hidden, diag
3 84.2GB 84.3GB 105MB fat32 EFI system partition
boot, esp
4 84.3GB 84.4GB 134MB Microsoft reserved
partition msftres
5 84.4GB 116GB 32.0GB ext4
6 116GB 120GB 4000MB linux-swap(v1)
7 120GB 1000GB 880GB ext4
Model: TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 2000GB 2000GB primary ext4
</CLI transcript>
[a] https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html
HTH,
-- Arun Khan
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