This morning I reloaded the computer again, selecting gpt versus dos for the partition table. I made the EFI and XFS partitions. The installer did not protest, and the resulting system will not boot. I reloaded it back to a single xfs root partition on a dos partition table, that boots.
Something wrong with gpt partition tables all of a sudden. I use gpt partition table with Xubuntu 20.04 perfectly fine... 500MB EFI partition, the rest as root XFS. Not right that I must now revert to a dos partition table in order to get a test system to boot.
There are the steps of me setting up the gpt trial this morning:
xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ sudo wipefs /dev/sda
DEVICE OFFSET TYPE UUID LABEL
sda 0x1fe dos
xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ sudo wipefs -a -t dos -f /dev/sda
/dev/sda: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001fe (dos): 55 aa
xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ sudo wipefs /dev/sda
xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install mtools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
floppyd
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mtools
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 201 kB of archives.
After this operation, 413 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 mtools amd64 4.0.33-1+really4.0.32-1 [201 kB]
Fetched 201 kB in 1s (236 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package mtools.
(Reading database ... 161715 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mtools_4.0.33-1+really4.0.32-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking mtools (4.0.33-1+really4.0.32-1) ...
Setting up mtools (4.0.33-1+really4.0.32-1) ...
Processing triggers for install-info (6.8-4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.1-1) ...
This morning I reloaded the computer again, selecting gpt versus dos for the partition table. I made the EFI and XFS partitions. The installer did not protest, and the resulting system will not boot. I reloaded it back to a single xfs root partition on a dos partition table, that boots.
Something wrong with gpt partition tables all of a sudden. I use gpt partition table with Xubuntu 20.04 perfectly fine... 500MB EFI partition, the rest as root XFS. Not right that I must now revert to a dos partition table in order to get a test system to boot.
There are the steps of me setting up the gpt trial this morning:
xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ sudo wipefs /dev/sda archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 mtools amd64 4.0.33- 1+really4. 0.32-1 [201 kB] 4.0.33- 1+really4. 0.32-1_ amd64.deb ... 1+really4. 0.32-1) ... 1+really4. 0.32-1) ...
DEVICE OFFSET TYPE UUID LABEL
sda 0x1fe dos
xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ sudo wipefs -a -t dos -f /dev/sda
/dev/sda: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001fe (dos): 55 aa
xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ sudo wipefs /dev/sda
xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install mtools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
floppyd
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mtools
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 201 kB of archives.
After this operation, 413 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://
Fetched 201 kB in 1s (236 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package mtools.
(Reading database ... 161715 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mtools_
Unpacking mtools (4.0.33-
Setting up mtools (4.0.33-
Processing triggers for install-info (6.8-4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.10.1-1) ...
xubuntu@xubuntu:~$ sudo wipefs /dev/sda
DEVICE OFFSET TYPE UUID LABEL
sda 0x200 gpt
sda 0xe8e0db5e00 gpt
sda 0x1fe PMBR