Hi!
I try to install OpenSUSE 13.2 64bits KDE.
Computer is en HP Elitebook 8470w Intel i7 vPro with AMD Radeon HD 7500M/7600M Series
I have one 24GB Intel Flash-disk (Micro-PCI-card) and one 500GB Hitachi Harddrive.
500GB is detected as /dev/sda
24GB Flash-frive is detected as /dev/sdb
I want to setup disks as:
Flash-drive /dev/sdb:
2GB Swap on /dev/sdb1
22GB /<Root> BtrFS on /dev/sdb2
and
500GB Harddrive /dev/sda:
500GB /Home XFS on /dev/sda1
I choose this in Expert-mode and then i get an error-msg about some Sub-directory for root don’t support my setup and this may cause problems.
After installation is finnished i then reboot and only get an error-mesg from Grub that device <xxxx> is not found, and i only get Grub-rescue-consolle.
If i boot from DVD again and enter expert-partition-mode, i can se;
2GB Swap on /dev/sdb1
22GB Unformated partition /dev/dsb2
and
478GB /Home on /dev/sda1
22GB /<root> on /dev/sda2
It seem like installation don’t want to install on my Flash-disk and force / on /dev/sda2
I don’t understand the question.
I wan’t to boot from the Flash-drive. Since this drive is much faster than den ordinary harddrive, then i wan’t OS/System og boot on this Flash-drive.
I never har this problem when i installed OpenSUSE 13.1
Can it be that the filsystem BrtFS don’t like Flash-drive?
I don’t understand the question.
I wan’t to boot from the Flash-drive. Since this drive is much faster
than den ordinary harddrive, then i wan’t OS/System og boot on this
Flash-drive.
I never har this problem when i installed OpenSUSE 13.1
Can it be that the filsystem BrtFS don’t like Flash-drive?
RS
nrickert;2681923 Wrote:
> There’s not really enough information.
>
> How are you intending to boot this arrangement?
Hi
No, you just need a separate /boot and just make sure at the install
summary it’s installing grub to the flash drive.
Something like;
/boot 512MB (ext[234]
/ ??GB btrfs
/swap 2GB
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As far as I know, there isn’t a problem with “btrfs” and a flash drive.
There are limitations with “btrfs” and “grub”, and you are possibly running into those.
If you are installing grub on the MBR of the flash drive, then make sure that the first partition begins at sector 2048 (not sector 63). Otherwise grub install will fail.
If you are installing grub on the root partition – I’m told that should work, though I have no experience with it. Apparently, “btrfs” does set aside space for a bootblock, which grub can use. But it depends on whether the grub installer knows how to use it.
During install, click on the “Booting” line of the install summary page, to get into the boot setup. The next screen should have a button for “Boot Loader Installation Details”. Click on that. It will list the disk order. Make sure that your boot disk (which you want to be your flash drive) is listed first.
On /dev/sda1 (Harddrive), i created /boot partition on 1GB. It refused to use BrtFS so i format it as ext4.
Then i make /dev/sda2 then partition /Home and format it as XFS(default)
On the Flash-drive /dev/sdb1 i create 2GB Swap
and /dev/sdb2 i created /<root> 22GB and format it as BrtFS.
Grub2 is installed as default in /boot
This worked.
This had to be some sort of “bug” in OpenSUSE 13.2 because i didn’t have this problem when i installed OpenSUSE 13.1
Installing to 2 drive is tricky and I was going to suggest you put boot on sda
It might work if you specified the /boot/efi partition as the one on sda If you have separate EFI boot partitions you must tell the BIOS which one to boot from.