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From: Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: The plot thickens!
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 03:04:32
Message-Id: 659f4319-c99f-ff6a-b7c9-a9da9c70f051@verizon.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: The plot thickens! by Bill Kenworthy
1 Bill Kenworthy wrote:
2 > On 27/01/17 08:33, Alan Grimes wrote:
3 >> Neil Bothwick wrote:
4 >>> On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 17:07:03 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote:
5 >>>
6 >>>> 4. Create MFT partition table.
7 >>> MFT? Isn't that something to do with NTFS? You need a GPT partition table
8 >>> if you want to boot with UEFI.
9 >>>
10 >> yeah, my bad memory, it was MFT, as offered by gparted. I don't seem to
11 >> have any tool to inspect the state of the partition tables like the old
12 >> Norton Utilities. =(
13 >>
14 > fdisk -l /dev/...
15 >
16 > BillK
17
18 localhost ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sdc
19 Disk /dev/sdc: 256.2 GiB, 275064201216 bytes, 537234768 sectors
20 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
21 Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
22 I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
23 Disklabel type: gpt
24 Disk identifier: 00C7D602-412C-4505-8992-0482855EDEF9
25
26 Device Start End Sectors Size Type
27 /dev/sdc1 2048 526335 524288 256M EFI System
28 /dev/sdc2 526336 537233407 536707072 255.9G Linux filesystem
29 localhost ~ #
30
31
32 Things tried since last post:
33
34 *Flashed the firmware on the drive, bumped it several release numbers...
35 *Tried waiting out the kernel pause, waited about 4 minutes, some post
36 just said it was slow by a factor of 30 seconds...
37 *Searching GooG for gripes about Grub on SSD systems.
38
39 No change in symptoms.
40
41
42 Check out this smartctl stat for my v-raptor:
43
44 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 206
45 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 021 021 000 Old_age Always - 58325
46
47
48
49
50 --
51 Strange Game.
52 The only winning move is not to play.
53
54 Powers are not rights.