[Gllug] dual boot debian on sparc

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Wed Aug 8 06:56:32 UTC 2007


On 2 Aug 2007, tethys at gmail.com told this:
> It's all fairly straightforward. The only thing you need to watch out
> for is not putting your UFS partitions at the start of the disk. It's
> been many years since I last did it, but from memory, ext2/3 leaves
> enough empty space at the start of the partition that it doesn't
> conflict with the bootloader. UFS doesn't, so you need to allow a bit
> of extra space.

Similarly, if you choose to convert the first slice into an LVM PV,
blacklist the raw block device so it won't get spotted as well by
vgscan.
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