Any idea why Debian complains about a start job failure on boot after a new install?
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@biggen said in Any idea why Debian complains about a start job failure on boot after a new install?:
@Pete-S I’m not there now but shows disklabel as “dos” if I remember correctly.
Please post it when you have access to the system.
And also the exact error you get in the log.
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@Pete-S Ok, I went ahead and let the installer partition it using the defaults for LVM. Everything is working!
The installer creates a small primary partition and installs /boot to it. It then creates an extended partition with the remainder of the drive and slices up logicals out of that for the LVM. It puts “/“ in vg1 as “lv root” and puts /swap in vg1 as well as lv swap”.
I was not creating a /boot. Never have. I was just creating a primary for the “/“ and then saving some of it for an extended /swap. I’ve done this forever. It even works in a VM. I have no idea why I couldn’t get it to work on the physical machine.