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My ordeal with grub continues. |
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I tried the bleeding edge GRUB, no change in behavior. |
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I realized that I had an additional source of information that I had |
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been neglecting. The boot fixer thumb drive I had in the back of the |
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mascheen was booting UEFI into a crappy bloating debian-ish thingy. It's |
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using an ubuntu fork of Grub and kernel 3.13 (!!!!!!!) |
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I tried to get it to load my main kernel, same error: Invalid sector |
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size: [2^16 - 1].... |
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Which is an indictment of how I set up my SSD. |
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My procedure was as follows: |
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1. Take SSD out of shrink wrap. |
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2. Plug some random wires in. (I have a motherboard with a marvell |
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secondary controller with a driver that doesn't request required |
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resources from the IOMMU stack so I had to move things down to a working |
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port, but well......) |
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3. Open Gparted |
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4. Create MFT partition table. |
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5. Allocate 0.1% of the drive to fat32 boot. (Okay, wasn't thinking too |
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hard, it's pretty excessively big but well...) |
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6. Format everything else ext4, which some random website says was good |
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for SSDs. |
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So obviously I did everything completely, hopelessly, wrong, as usual..... |
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Maybe there is some issue where the drive negotiated some state of the |
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art protocol with the chipset that grub doesn't support? |
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I have no idea what happens when I select the menu item that is supposed |
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to load the kernel, I cannot prove that it's even loading the kernel |
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image into memory. |
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Linux is going to need a much lower fail factor for me to like it. =| |
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Strange Game. |
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The only winning move is not to play. |
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