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Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

From Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot
Date 2017-12-21 20:10 +0100
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On 12/21/2017 04:36 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Felix Miata composed on 2017-11-29 13:55 (UTC-0500):
>
>> Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-28 22:15 (UTC-0500):
>>> dan@debian8:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda
>>> Command (m for help): p
>>> Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
>>> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>>> Disklabel type: gpt
>>> Disk identifier: A615A904-0620-459F-BF44-5E53E54FDF24
>>> Device         Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
>>> /dev/sda1       2048     411647     409600   200M BIOS boot
>>> /dev/sda2     411648   16783359   16371712   7.8G Linux swap
>>> /dev/sda3   16783360  151001087  134217728    64G Linux LVM
>>> /dev/sda4  151001088  285218815  134217728    64G Linux LVM
>>> /dev/sda5  285218816  419436543  134217728    64G Linux LVM
>>> /dev/sda6  419436544  553654271  134217728    64G Linux LVM
>>> /dev/sda7  553654272 1953525134 1399870863 667.5G Linux filesystem
>>> Is there a problem here?
>> Maybe. I don't have any GPT-partitioned disks...
> No longer the case. I bought a G250 Kaby Lake Intel motherboard. I currently
> have Stretch, openSUSE Tumbleweed and openSUSE 15.0 Alpha installed. openSUSE
> 42.3's installer hangs in the bootloader configuration step.
> https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1073201
>
> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/gb250L02.txt  is my partition log. The upper part
> is generated by the partitioner I use. The bottom is gpart -l output for comparison.
>
> I haven't seen you post the debian-user list in a while. How's multiboot going
> for you?

Not bad, actually. I'm nearly ready to try multiboot with GPT again on 
my (elderly) HP desktop machine. It only has a 1T sda, but that seems 
like wretched excess.

Currently jessie, stretch, and buster are installed with primary/logical 
partitioning. Each is in a separate volume group, with logical volumes 
for /, /var, /tmp, /home, and swap. IMHO, the following guidelines are 
helpful:

1. Do all partitioning with the installer. Don't try to prepare the EFI 
for example with other partitioners. Partitioning can be daunting, but 
if you patiently and sometimes repeatedly use the installer UI, you can 
set up the desired partitioning. The installer UI could be improved. :-)

2. You will make extra work for yourself by having a common swap 
partition for all installations. With the common swap, each new 
installation gave rise to these messages:

   a. "gave up waiting for suspend/resume device"

   b. "a start job is running for dev-disk-by\..."

   c. "failed to connect to lvmetad"

STW can reveal ways to avoid these messages, but they are a PITA and 
avoidable by each volume group having its own swap.

There are still mysteries I have not solved. For some reason, GRUB has 
decided that after POST, you only need 3 seconds to choose which 
installation to boot. GRUB has resisted my efforts to change that 
timeout value. I've been able to change the boot order in NVRAM, but not 
the timeout.

Before moving on to multiboot with LVM and GPT, I'd like to change the 
menu entries to something more consistent. The last install is referred 
to as "Debian GNU/Linux" but that's ambiguous. Which Debian GNU/Linux? 
If each entry was in the form "Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) (on 
/dev/mapper/vol2-root)" that would really be explicit. Also I want some 
more time to mull over which to boot.

  - Dan

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Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-13 04:50 +0100
  Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-11-13 07:20 +0100
    Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-13 16:30 +0100
      Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-11-13 20:10 +0100
        Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-13 21:10 +0100
        Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-14 00:10 +0100
          Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-11-14 01:50 +0100
            Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-14 03:40 +0100
              Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-11-14 04:00 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-14 04:50 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-16 19:40 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-11-16 20:10 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-16 23:40 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-11-16 20:30 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-11-16 21:20 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-29 19:10 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-11-29 19:20 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-11-29 19:50 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-11-29 19:40 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-29 21:40 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-11-29 22:00 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-29 22:40 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-30 03:20 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-29 22:10 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-11-29 23:10 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-17 00:00 +0100
              Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-11-29 10:10 +0100
      Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-11-13 20:20 +0100
        Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-14 00:30 +0100
          Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-11-14 00:40 +0100
  Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2017-11-13 10:00 +0100
    Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-13 17:00 +0100
      Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2017-11-13 21:30 +0100
  Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2017-11-13 13:00 +0100
    Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2017-11-13 17:10 +0100
      Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-13 18:10 +0100
    Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-13 17:10 +0100
      Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-11-13 20:00 +0100
        Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-29 04:20 +0100
          Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> - 2017-11-29 08:10 +0100
          Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-11-29 10:10 +0100
            Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-11-29 19:00 +0100
          Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-11-29 20:00 +0100
            Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-11-29 20:40 +0100
            Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-21 10:50 +0100
              Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-21 20:10 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-21 21:00 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-21 23:00 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-12-21 23:10 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-21 23:20 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-23 21:20 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-23 22:40 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-24 01:20 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-24 05:40 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-28 01:00 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-28 07:40 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-28 07:50 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-28 10:50 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-28 21:00 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-29 15:00 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2017-12-29 23:50 +0100
                Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-30 00:40 +0100

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