On 13/02/14 18:02, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
On 2014-02-13 12:33, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Feb 13, 2014, at 1:50 AM, Frank Kingswood
wrote:
On 12/02/14 17:13, Saint Germain wrote:
Ok based on your advices, here is what I have done so far to use UEFI
(remeber that the objective is to have a
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:33:10 +0100, Saint Germain
wrote :
> On 11 February 2014 03:30, Saint Germain wrote:
> >> > I am experimenting with BTRFS and RAID1 on my Debian Wheezy (with
> >> > backported kernel 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64) using a a motherboard with
> >> > UEFI.
> >>
> >> > I have installed D
On 11 February 2014 03:30, Saint Germain wrote:
>> > I am experimenting with BTRFS and RAID1 on my Debian Wheezy (with
>> > backported kernel 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64) using a a motherboard with
>> > UEFI.
>>
>> > I have installed Debian with the following partition on the first
>> > hard drive (no BTRF
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:43:08 -0700, Chris Murphy
wrote :
> >>> sda3 = 1 TiB root partition (BTRFS), mounted on /
> >>> sda4 = 6 GiB swap partition
> >>> (that way I should be able to be compatible with both CSM or UEFI)
> >>>
> >>> B) normal Debian installation on sdas, activate the CSM on the
>
On Feb 13, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
>
> While this is what the UEFI spec says is supposed to be the fallback,
> many systems don't actually look there unless the media is removable.
> All of my UEFI systems instead look for Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi as
> the fallback (Caus
On 2014-02-13 12:33, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
> On Feb 13, 2014, at 1:50 AM, Frank Kingswood
> wrote:
>
>> On 12/02/14 17:13, Saint Germain wrote:
>>> Ok based on your advices, here is what I have done so far to use UEFI
>>> (remeber that the objective is to have a clean and simple BTRFS RAID1
>>>
On Feb 13, 2014, at 3:03 AM, Saint Germain wrote:
> On 13 February 2014 09:50, Frank Kingswood
> wrote:
>> On 12/02/14 17:13, Saint Germain wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok based on your advices, here is what I have done so far to use UEFI
>>> (remeber that the objective is to have a clean and simple BTRFS R
On Feb 13, 2014, at 1:50 AM, Frank Kingswood
wrote:
> On 12/02/14 17:13, Saint Germain wrote:
>> Ok based on your advices, here is what I have done so far to use UEFI
>> (remeber that the objective is to have a clean and simple BTRFS RAID1
>> install).
>>
>> A) I start first with only one driv
On 13 February 2014 09:50, Frank Kingswood
wrote:
> On 12/02/14 17:13, Saint Germain wrote:
>>
>> Ok based on your advices, here is what I have done so far to use UEFI
>> (remeber that the objective is to have a clean and simple BTRFS RAID1
>> install).
>>
>> A) I start first with only one drive,
On 12/02/14 17:13, Saint Germain wrote:
Ok based on your advices, here is what I have done so far to use UEFI
(remeber that the objective is to have a clean and simple BTRFS RAID1
install).
A) I start first with only one drive, I have gone with the following
partition scheme (Debian wheezy, kern
On Feb 12, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Saint Germain wrote:
> On 11 February 2014 19:15, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>>
>>> To summarize, I think I have 3 options for partitioning (I am not
>>> considering UEFI secure boot or swap):
>>> 1) grub, BTRFS partition (i.e. full disk in BTRFS), /boot inside BTRFS
>
On 11 February 2014 21:35, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> Saint Germain posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:04:57 +0100 as excerpted:
>
>> The big problem I currently have is that based on your input, I hesitate
>> a lot on my partitioning scheme: should I use a dedicated /boot
>> partition or sh
On 11 February 2014 19:15, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> To summarize, I think I have 3 options for partitioning (I am not
>> considering UEFI secure boot or swap):
>> 1) grub, BTRFS partition (i.e. full disk in BTRFS), /boot inside BTRFS
>> subvolume
>
> This doesn't seem like a good idea for a boot
Chris Murphy posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:15:56 -0700 as excerpted:
> The distros should be pressured to move to grub 2.02, currently in beta,
> upon release. And I think it would be good for Btrfs testers to build
> grub 2.02 beta, and try to break it with various Btrfs configurations so
> that
Saint Germain posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:04:57 +0100 as excerpted:
> The big problem I currently have is that based on your input, I hesitate
> a lot on my partitioning scheme: should I use a dedicated /boot
> partition or should I have one global BTRFS partition ?
> It is not very clear in the
On Feb 11, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Saint Germain wrote:
>>
>> grub-install shouldn't work on UEFI because the only place
>> grub-install installs is to the volume mounted at /boot/efi. And also
>> grub-install /dev/sdb implies installing grub to a disk boot sector, which
>> also isn't applicable
On Feb 11, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Saint Germain wrote:
> Hello and thanks for your feedback !
>
> Cc back to the mailing-list as it may be of interest here as well.
>
> On 11 February 2014 16:11, Kyle Gates wrote:
>>> The big problem I currently have is that based on your input, I
>>> hesitate a
On 11 February 2014 18:21, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
> On Feb 10, 2014, at 8:15 PM, Saint Germain wrote:
>>
>> Ok I need to really understand how my motherboard works (new Z87E-ITX).
>> It is written "64Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS", so I thought it was really
>> UEFI.
>
> Manufacturers have done us a diss
On Feb 10, 2014, at 11:59 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> Saint Germain posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2014 04:15:27 +0100 as excerpted:
>
>> Ok I need to really understand how my motherboard works (new Z87E-ITX).
>> It is written "64Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS", so I thought it was really
>> UEFI.
On Feb 10, 2014, at 8:15 PM, Saint Germain wrote:
>
> Ok I need to really understand how my motherboard works (new Z87E-ITX).
> It is written "64Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS", so I thought it was really
> UEFI.
Manufacturers have done us a disservice by equating UEFI and BIOS. Some UEFI
also have a
Hello and thanks for your feedback !
Cc back to the mailing-list as it may be of interest here as well.
On 11 February 2014 16:11, Kyle Gates wrote:
>> The big problem I currently have is that based on your input, I
>> hesitate a lot on my partitioning scheme: should I use a dedicated
>> /boot p
On 11 February 2014 07:59, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> Saint Germain posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2014 04:15:27 +0100 as excerpted:
>
>> Ok I need to really understand how my motherboard works (new Z87E-ITX).
>> It is written "64Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS", so I thought it was really
>> UEFI.
>
> I
Saint Germain posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2014 04:15:27 +0100 as excerpted:
> I understand. Normally the swap will only be used for hibernating. I
> don't expect to use it except perhaps in some extreme case.
If hibernate is your main swap usage, you might consider the noauto fstab
option as well, the
Saint Germain posted on Tue, 11 Feb 2014 04:15:27 +0100 as excerpted:
> Ok I need to really understand how my motherboard works (new Z87E-ITX).
> It is written "64Mb AMI UEFI Legal BIOS", so I thought it was really
> UEFI.
I expect it's truly UEFI. But from what I've read most UEFI based
firmwa
Hello !
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:18:22 -0700, Chris Murphy
wrote :
>
> On Feb 9, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Saint Germain wrote:
> >
> > Then I added another drive for a RAID1 configuration (with btrfs
> > balance) and I installed grub on the second hard drive with
> > "grub-install /dev/sdb".
>
> That
Hello Duncan,
What an amazing extensive answer you gave me !
Thank you so much for it.
See my comments below.
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 03:34:49 + (UTC), Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net>
wrote :
> > I am experimenting with BTRFS and RAID1 on my Debian Wheezy (with
> > backported kernel 3.12-0.bpo.1-
On Feb 9, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Saint Germain wrote:
>
> Then I added another drive for a RAID1 configuration (with btrfs
> balance) and I installed grub on the second hard drive with
> "grub-install /dev/sdb".
That can't work on UEFI. UEFI firmware effectively requires a GPT partition map
and som
Saint Germain posted on Sun, 09 Feb 2014 22:40:55 +0100 as excerpted:
> I am experimenting with BTRFS and RAID1 on my Debian Wheezy (with
> backported kernel 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64) using a a motherboard with UEFI.
My systems don't do UEFI, but I do run GPT partitions and use grub2 for
booting, with
Hello,
I am experimenting with BTRFS and RAID1 on my Debian Wheezy (with
backported kernel 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64) using a a motherboard with UEFI.
However I haven't managed to make the system boot when the removing the
first hard drive.
I have installed Debian with the following partition on the fi
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