Re: Follow-up on last IRC meeting (ie: 12 Aug 2020)

2020-08-14 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 10:31:36AM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 09:45:43 +0200, Bastian Blank > > said: > > > Yes. GPT got a copy of it's header at the beginning and the end. You > > can expand the whole thing and the tools will relocate the header on the

Re: AWS boot failure: symbol 'grub_calloc' not found

2020-08-14 Thread Phil Endecott
I've just rebooted an AWS instance running buster and it has failed to restart, with the message "symbol 'grub_calloc' not found" shown on the console screenshot. Just to wrap this up: Thanks to Noah for your advice. I have written up what I had to do to repair this at

Re: Follow-up on last IRC meeting (ie: 12 Aug 2020)

2020-08-14 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 09:45:43 +0200, Bastian Blank said: > Yes. GPT got a copy of it's header at the beginning and the end. You > can expand the whole thing and the tools will relocate the header on the > end correctly, but you can't shorten it. After shorten the image or

Re: Follow-up on last IRC meeting (ie: 12 Aug 2020)

2020-08-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 8/14/20 8:02 AM, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > Could it be the GPT partition table at the end of the disk? Right, that's probably the issue. I wonder, what is the way around this. Thomas

Re: Follow-up on last IRC meeting (ie: 12 Aug 2020)

2020-08-14 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Ross On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 11:02:55PM -0700, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > Could it be the GPT partition table at the end of the disk? Even truncating > off 1M breaks it. Nothing will use the copy at the start of the disk, I > wonder > what the point of it is. Yes. GPT got a copy of it's

Re: Follow-up on last IRC meeting (ie: 12 Aug 2020)

2020-08-14 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 12:37:12AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > # Finally, truncate the final disk > truncate -s ${FINAL_IMAGE_SIZE}M disk.raw > > After the parted + truncate, the partition 1 is broken, I don't > understand why, but that's probably due to this weird layout. I don't think it's