From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF1EC1381FA for ; Mon, 5 May 2014 06:11:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28D46E0B16; Mon, 5 May 2014 06:11:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from postler.lichtfels.com (postler.lichtfels.com [78.46.92.195]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 83028E0B11 for ; Mon, 5 May 2014 06:11:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9CE0125C7 for ; Mon, 5 May 2014 08:10:58 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=xunil.at; s=mailout; t=1399270258; bh=npFzIA1tfZwQUirofmr9A88WMmo5lPMOxrSZAmXWC00=; h=Date:From:Reply-To:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=rLU1J8L1vqUypYdjj6hy3SPvWxWI4ZPdOibhqvksmwkuuq7bF8d0+CFaKPn4YwWgA Wl7BStH1nY/uuvv0tdSbpNVHoN+vVkChRK9uVTLg8JP3bTdQiddlqLKfPS6IjILuij vixDiJW1XhNdNP4QurLypwCQRt4wuU6trZ0IR960= Received: from postler.lichtfels.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (postler.lichtfels.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with LMTP id 03758-03 for ; Mon, 5 May 2014 08:10:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hiro.oops.intern (unknown [IPv6:2001:15c0:65ff:8742:9dcd:7c89:1a71:ba00]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B36FD123E0 for ; Mon, 5 May 2014 08:10:56 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=xunil.at; s=mailout; t=1399270256; bh=npFzIA1tfZwQUirofmr9A88WMmo5lPMOxrSZAmXWC00=; h=Date:From:Reply-To:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=aVUjZVyFUP/mTcodbNIK3bAwMh+erEQ6h0TXOhW+bAKWT7jBvdhOHCrdYwBzUdKMr rLaNLlqlrgBylyQVtjKYf29QkioKK7q2RweQEoLdEqYnRzuOL8lqBGI72V5LMRgcCG o5Sdu1IrnPrkwBseEzYWSlVrlPs/C8UeANivUUx4= Message-ID: <53672B6F.3020505@xunil.at> Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 08:10:55 +0200 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems References: <5364C0F9.3000906@xunil.at> <1453433.qRkdsgn7FL@andromeda> <53668EEC.6000709@xunil.at> <3077184.ESb4oPm3p1@andromeda> In-Reply-To: <3077184.ESb4oPm3p1@andromeda> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.2c X-Archives-Salt: bf913e3a-b020-43ed-98d4-640c6313dc5e X-Archives-Hash: ce7ea8cc43d38fcede6aa92c9aaf4675 Am 04.05.2014 21:22, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > On Sunday, May 04, 2014 09:03:08 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> People run KVM-hosts with storage on ZFS ... nice with the >> snapshots etc ... > > Does KVM support running snapshots? Eg. also storing the memory and > registers? I have not found any indication that KVM supports that. > > Without that, KVM is useless to me. KVM != ZFS ... you could use ZFS with other hypervisors. AFAI understand you can take snapshots using libvirt (which in turn controls the underlying qemu-kvm etc). > I thought the MBR info that's possible with GPT would make it > possible with any BIOS? Provided the /boot partition is early enough > on the disk. I had no separate /boot ... just sda1 as "BIOS boot partition", unformatted and with partition type ef02 (and sda2 as my gentoo-root). >> I also wanted to partition the SSD according to the Erase Block >> Size of 6144 kB by this way ... dunno if this is still needed or >> has any real speed benefits. > > Again, I would expect current tools should do that automagically? Maybe. >> Maybe I take another approach to migrate to UEFI/GPT in the next >> days, now that I have my rsynced filesystems at hand (I got rid of >> more LVs and stuff so it gets pretty slim now). > > Less LVs is simpler. More is more flexible. Exactly. But it was time to clean up a bit. >>> booting works from BIOS/MBR. >> >> ... if your BIOS isn't crappy ;-) > > Try updating? :) Never found an update for this box. -> DMI: Hewlett-Packard HP Elite 7300 Series MT/2AB5, BIOS 7.12 10/12/2011 hints welcome ;-) > Seriously, do you have the following: > > *** # man gdisk artemis ~ # gdisk -l /dev/sda GPT fdisk (gdisk) > version 0.8.8 > > Partition table scan: MBR: protective > > *** > > That last line of what I copied is the bit that should make it > possible. > > Also, the /boot partition needs to have the mbr-boot flag (or > whatever it's called) enabled. Thanks, but I had that as well ... I will skip that stuff and try going the UEFI-way later this day, if my customers allow ... Stefan