Well, Houston, it seems all is well in the 'hood. I was able to restore the data from my old 4TB drive to the new shiny 8TB drive, and the OS is working so far. Looks like the lunar injection burn worked!
Thank-you all for your help and support! Mark On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM Mark Phillips <m...@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote: > Alexander, > > I saw that too, after I posted. I rebooted and started the install again. > It seems that one has to tick the wipe the disk option, and then tick the > manual partition table option, and then setup the partition tables. There > is no "erase the disk option" on the manual partition table setup screen. > The installation is now going forward. > > IMO, that is a bug in the setup process, because the options for "wipe the > disk" and "manual setup" are presented as mutually exclusive in the > installer screens. > > Anyway, I got the "installation done, reboot now" screen, so wish me luck, > Houston. I will contact you as soon as I transit the back side of the > moon..... > > Mark > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> From the log: >> >> disk 'disk-nvme0n1' does not have correct partition table or cannot be >> read, but preserve is set to true (or wipe is not set). cannot continue >> installation. >> >> I would drop to a shell (Ctrl+alt+2) and at a root shell I would re-wipe >> that disk (wipefs -af /dev/nvme0m1) and try again ... >> >> --- >> Thanks, >> Alexander >> >> Sent from my Google Pixel 9 Pro >> >> On Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 11:51 Mark Phillips via PLUG-discuss < >> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >> >>> Here is the log file from the failed installation. >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM Mark Phillips < >>> m...@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote: >>> >>>> Houston, we have a problem. >>>> >>>> I installed the new 1TB and 8TB SSDs and attempted to install Ubuntu >>>> 24.04 from the live USB stick I have been using so far. I went through the >>>> manual installation steps, put the OS on the 1 TB drive and setup the 8TB >>>> drive, and the installation crashed. The drives are brand new. I >>>> submitted a bug report to Ubuntu - >>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/subiquity/+bug/2121085. Not sure if you can >>>> access that report to see if you know what happened. Any suggestions? I >>>> will try it again and take screenshots of the partition tables. Maybe I >>>> messed that up. >>>> >>>> Mark >>>> >>>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 8:25 AM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss < >>>> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> There is also the ability to use LVM for storage tiering via LVM >>>>> caching. really cool tech to speed up a spinning rust drive. I have >>>>> presented this to the group in the past. >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < >>>>> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:20:57 -0700 >>>>>> Mark Phillips via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> > In terms of a major reinstall, should I use LVM or not? >>>>>> >>>>>> No, don't use LVM. Just one more abstraction layer to go wrong and >>>>>> bork >>>>>> all your data. It also adds more learning to our already >>>>>> overburdened minds. From my understanding, LVM bestows three >>>>>> advantages: >>>>>> >>>>>> 1) "Rubber" partitions that can grow and shrink. >>>>>> >>>>>> 2) Partition snapshots. >>>>>> >>>>>> 3) Combining multiple hardware disks into one virtual disk. >>>>>> >>>>>> Now, with the advent of bind mounts, rubber partitions are trivial >>>>>> without LVM or any other abstraction layer. >>>>>> >>>>>> You can get pretty close to the utility of snapshots with rsync. If >>>>>> you >>>>>> want real snapshots, just substitute btrfs instead of ext4. >>>>>> >>>>>> Combining multiple hardware disks is often done for the wrong reason. >>>>>> I >>>>>> wish I had a dime for every person trying to combine a 20 year old >>>>>> 20GB >>>>>> drive, a 10 year old 1TB drive, and a current day 16GB drive, just to >>>>>> add 1020GB to a 16,000,000 GB system. Not worth the added complexity >>>>>> of >>>>>> LVM. >>>>>> >>>>>> A better reason is to add in a new 20TB drive after your 16TB drive >>>>>> became full. But still not good enough. The new drive can be carved up >>>>>> into directories to be bind-mounted to mountpoints on the 20GB drive, >>>>>> so LVM is still not necessary. >>>>>> >>>>>> Maybe there's some RAID related reason to use LVM. I wouldn't know >>>>>> because I don't use RAID. If you don't need high availability or error >>>>>> correction, why use RAID. If you DO need high availability or error >>>>>> correction, then you can take everything I've said with a grain of >>>>>> salt, because your use case is different. >>>>>> >>>>>> SteveT >>>>>> >>>>>> Steve Litt >>>>>> Spring 2023 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the >>>>>> Successful >>>>>> Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques >>>>>> >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >>>>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >>>>> >>>>> Stephen >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >
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