12/21/2023 0 Comments Instal Hell is OthersThe other half of the time, grub fails with a generic message ("boot loader install failed"). When trying to install in legacy boot mode, half the time the install segfaults. ![]() Typing almost anything of length (such as "/boot/efi") takes 5-10 minutes. 1 in 3 keypresses are interpreted as about 20 keypresses. When it boots into the GUI mouse and keyboard performance are terrible. ![]() Both 25 and 26B behave basically the same. Got to the Grub boot screen, tried to boot the kernel, but only got through one line before locking up.ĭecided that the old system couldn't deal with modern hardware and that it was time to upgrade to Fedora 25 or 26B (my Linux experience is with Fedora, I prefer not to switch distros). ![]() I'm looking to keep roughly the same config (ext4), although might prefer to get rid of the boot partitions (they're getting to be too small for modern installs anyway) for more swap.įirst attempted just to boot the old Linux (something like Fedora 13). The root partition is fully backed up and wiped, but I don't want to have to wipe the RAID6s. System description: six SATA disks, each partitioned with a ~200MB boot partition, ~4GB swap partition, a ~200GB RAID1 across all six, a ~2.5TB RAID6 partition across all six, and a ~7.5TB RAID6 partition across all six (all raids software / mdadm). I'm upgrading an old server to become a new server / compute node.
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