Larry Gadallah <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Phillip. This system probably does have 64KB blocks, as the > root FS is ~460 Gb in size. This leads to a couple of questions:
Why is your root filesystem this big? You manually chose that. Why did you avoid the default partition scheme which installs multiple partitions and filesystems with smaller sizes, which comes with substantial benefits? I'm not going to bother repeating the benefits here. > 1. Is there a way to instruct the installer to install an EFI bootloader? Wow. > 2. Shouldn't the docs indicate somewhere that if you deviate from the > recommended partitioning scheme, you might see problems like this? *LOTS* of documentation, as well as the install defaults, push people to have a small root and many filesystems. Based upon what I see described here, I doubt any additional documentation would have helped! In the installer you manually specifically chose a custom layout, and entered some outlandish choices. So you went through the installer and manually chose to configure a gigantic root partition, and yet you didn't see the manual choise to install an EFI bootloader? The problem here is you didn't just "hit return". That's why we have received no reports of this memory-shortage bug in the bootloader before. Noone else setup a system this crazy weird.
