Hi Stan, On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 11:34:59PM -0600, Stan Johnson wrote: > Not knowing what the preferred size should be for a GRUB /boot > partition, I decided to let Guided Partioning use its defaults for > /dev/sda. As I recall, the partitioner warned that the number of > cylinders on the disk exceeded the maximum of 65536, but the creation of > filesystems and the rest of the installation proceeded anyway, without > any other noticeable errors. > > The layout for /dev/sda is as follows: > > # fdisk -l /dev/sda > Disk /dev/sda: 136.73 GiB, 146815737856 bytes, 286749488 sectors > Disk model: ST3146807LC > Geometry: 255 heads, 2 sectors/track, 37965 cylinders > 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: sun > > Device Start End Sectors Size Id Type Flags > /dev/sda1 0 1000109 1000110 488.3M 1 Boot > /dev/sda2 1000110 284748299 283748190 135.3G 83 Linux native > /dev/sda3 0 286749029 286749030 136.7G 5 Whole disk > /dev/sda4 284748300 286749029 2000730 976.9M 82 Linux swap
this is a sun disk partitioning scheme - not shure, if this is well supported with grub. > -> Question 1: If I don't plan to install Solaris, is it safe to remove > the "Whole disk" partition (/dev/sda3)? AFAIR sun disklabels allows up to 8 entries - so there is no advantage in removing the solaris standard whole disk entry. > -> Question 2: What is the best size for /boot (/dev/sda1)? After > installation, the /boot partition had only about 57 MB of files. What's on this partition? Only Grub files or also the kernel stuff? AFAIR I used around 100-200MB years ago, but this was with SILO. > > Then the GRUB menu is displayed, and I am able to scroll through the > options using the "v" and "^" keys (but not the up and down arrow keys). > After selecting the new Debian SID (or allowing it to be selected by > default), the X login eventually comes up, but it seems to be off the > screen. If I login anyway, the Xfce desktop comes up, but it seems to be > larger than the screen. This problem, which is similar to a problem I > had with Debian 7.8, can probably be fixed with an appropriate xorg.conf > file. Congrats, sounds good! Good luck, greetings Hermann
