GPT Partitions and VSIDO

[jedi]

So I've been working on this for a while now and finally got it working!  Yes indeed VSIDO will install and run on a GPT partitioned SSD or HDD.

The beauty of this is the ability to basically have an unimaginable amount of primary partitions, instead of having to deal with the 'Logical & Extended' crap of msdos partitioned drives using MBR.  It also removes the 2Tb limitation of MBR/msdos partitions.

While the GPT partitioning works fine, UEFI still needs some work.  In order for UEFI to work, you have to replace Grub2 with Grub-efi-amd64.  The issue with this is that VSIDO has Remastersys, and if you install grub-efi-amd64 it will definitely, without a doubt, "break" Remastersys as it relies on grub-common/Grub2.  (I doubt on a current install you could do this anyway)

More to come...

[VastOne]

^ Thanks jedi, the  testing you have done is incredible and I appreciate it

The thing that breaks remastersys is grub2 being removed, which in turn removes remastersys...

It is not an issue on my end since I do not use anything UEFI, but by installing Grub-efi-amd64 so that UEFI works out of the box, makes building an ISO very difficult without remastersys

[jedi]

Yeah, sorry 'bout that little mishap last night.  I didn't mean to break your test machine!!!  So far today (Sunday) I've 'broken/borked' a Debian Netinst install, and 2 VSIDO installs.

Oh well, I've learned a lot along the way.  Stuff like, WOW, I can even break one of VastOne's machines!  Glad it wasn't your 'main' box!  So, going to call it a day now, enough geeking!   

[VastOne]

^ You broke my secondary build box for all of 5 minutes... thats how long it took to restore the fsarchive backup of the build partition...

Still, I plan to smack the **** out of you when I see you!

[lwfitz]

SMACK HIM! SMACK HIM! 


I have a couple UEFI boards and would love to see this that part of it working. GPT would be nice so that I could dual boot but I made the choice to just build another machine to run Windows off of 

Good work though Jedi, I really like the direction VSIDO is going with this.

[jedi]

DO NOT TRY THE GPT PARTITION METHOD AT THIS TIME! IT WILL SERIOUSLY HOSE YOUR PC!

Yeah well I spoke to soon.  Rebooted and all was a disaster.  Not only would it not boot, it refused to see the SSD drive in BIOS.

This ended up being because of the GPT partitioned drive.  The more I try this the madder and more frustrated I get.  F**K Microshat!  The problem ends up being that with a GPT partitioned drive, you have a "Boot" partition where the EFI information is not only stored, but also 'written' to NVRAM.  This is a serious f**king problem if you ask me.  Once I installed VSIDO, of course I had to install Grub2.  This mixed with grub-efi-amd64 is evidently a problem...

Oh well.  Now I'm seeing Xorg getting removed, even though I just ran update and dist-upgrade in a separate terminal window "before" vsido-welcome.  Just not my night evidently.  So I'll be re-installing yet again tonight.

I'll report back in a little while with more results.  IMO though, anyone wanting to try GPT partitioning might want to hold off for a while...

[VastOne]

^ Sorry to hear that jedi, but this should teach you well not to ever mess with my machines again!

(putting away jedi voodoo dolls now)

I need to see this xorg issue... Is the other message that 349 files will be upgraded?  I have not been able to reproduce this yet

[jedi]

Not 349, 317.  Then it removed over a hundred.  Check out the scrot of the install time just now!  Fastest personal install for me since we started this epic journey!!! 



My 13 year old daughter just left an hour ago on her first journey alone (on a school sponsored function) to Washington D.C.      I'm on IRC tonight as I am not going to be able to get any sleep.  Yeah, yeah, I know you all have lives!   

I just knew you had a voodoo doll or something...