#arpnetworks 2015-09-07,Mon

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mnathani_how do I force an ubuntu install to use BIOS mode rather than EFI / GPT [12:23]
brycecDisable EFI in the bios? Force the boot selector to boot from the ISO as BIOS (and not from an EFI file)? At least, those are the two methods I've done in the past, generally speaking. [12:29]
mercutioyou boot in usb mode
when you select boot device it should show two
hmm he.net route changed suddenly.
oh and now there's he.net loss
what's he.net doing :/
and now it's fine again.
[12:29]
mnathani_dont think the machine supports efi, however the ubuntu install configured the disk to use gpt [12:31]
mercutiogpt is fine
you can use gpt with bios
you just want a boot partition with the sectors of 34 through 2047
[12:31]
mnathani_cant boot however
after install
something about hd0
[12:31]
mercutioi suppose you can't pastebin the partition layout easily [12:32]
mnathani_if I liveboot it probably
its a 3tb drive if that makes a difference
[12:32]
mercutio3tb NEEDS gpt
so you have gpt/bios or gpt/uefi
the bios boot partition isn't as bad as it sounds
[12:33]
brycecmercutio++ [12:33]
mercutiouefi is sometimes a little messy
GUID Partition Table (GPT) specific instructions
On a BIOS/GPT configuration a BIOS boot partition is required. GRUB embeds its core.img into this partition.
Note:
that's from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB
bah
like my hp server doesn't support uefi, and is using gpt with 3tb drives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS_boot_partition
[12:33]
BryceBotBIOS boot partition :: The BIOS boot partition is a partition on a data storage device that GNU GRUB uses on legacy BIOS-based personal computers in order to boot an operating system, when the actual boot device contains a GUID Partition Table (GPT). Such a layout is sometimes referred to as BIOS/GPT boot. A BIOS boot partition is needed because GPT uses the disk sectors immediately following the Master Boot Record (MBR) to hold the actual... [12:35]
brycecAlso note that the only way to fully/properly install UEFI requires that you be booted by UEFI in the first place, otherwise the install has no access to the EFI nvram to install a boot entry. [12:36]
mercutiomaybe that simplifies saying about it [12:36]
brycec(And so if you're not booted UEFI, then it couldn't possibly have installed UEFI) [12:36]
mercutioso you bsaically create a partition of type EF02 [12:36]
mnathani_what command do I run to display the partition layout? [12:37]
mercutiogdisk
well that's what i use
[12:37]
brycec[on linux] [12:37]
mercutioahh yeah, on linux :)
but he said ubuntu
[12:37]
brycecYeah.
t'was mostly a joke, since the question was vague
[12:37]
mercutioi'm trying to see where people say about the 34 to 2047 trick
not to much avail
suppose it doesn't matter where it says it. all recent systems won't use the sectors between 34 and 2047 normally
so you can just add that partition
because they want to do the sector alignment stuff. but for grub sector alignment doesn't matter :)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 34 2047 1007.0 KiB EF02 BIOS boot partition
so you can do like that
withotu having to screw around with repartitioning
then you can just do grub-install /dev/sda or whatever your device name is
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mercutiohas anyone else hit some weird refresh bug with chrome?
where pages that reload regularly seem to reload ALL THE TIME
like say smokeping that usually reloads once a minute or something, will reload once a second or somethign
[12:47]
JC_Dentondo you guys know anything about 4k monitors? [12:49]
mercutioJC: I'm using a cheap one.
and have been for a while.
it works ok in linux, but windows 4k support on small monitors is pretty broken
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mnathani_I dont see any partitions
live boot ubuntu
[12:58]
mercutiowith gdisk?
were you looking at the usb stick?
or the hard-drive
[12:58]
mnathani_I ran gdisk as root
it says type device filename
or press enter to quit
It was a live dvd boot
[12:59]
mercutiogdisk /dev/sda
sorry :)
[12:59]
mnathani_found valid gpt with protective MBR, using gpt [13:00]
mercutiooh you can do both at once [13:00]
mnathani_how do I get it to actually boot from this drive though? [13:01]
mercutiomaek the ef02 boot partition
if it's not there
it doesn't need to be big
so if it'snot there, you can make it in the empty space between 34 and 2047 sectors
[13:01]
mnathani_are there a bunch of steps [13:02]
mercutionot really
gdisk is like fdisk
if you've used fdisk
[13:02]
BryceBotThat's what she said!! [13:02]
mnathani_not realy used fdisk without the hand holding
of a manual
[13:02]
mercutiohmm [13:02]
mnathani_what should I search for to find instructions online? [13:03]
mercutioi have something to paste
http://pastebin.com/sNfmngQu

ok
that's the gdisk step although you'll probably want to s/vda/sda/
[13:04]
mnathani_I have an ef02 [13:05]
mercutiooh you do [13:05]
mnathani_start 2048 end 4095 [13:05]
mercutiook
cool
then grub-install /dev/sda should just make it work
what happened when you tried to boot it
surely ubuntu doesn't get that bit wrong
[13:05]
mnathani_grub install error [13:07]
mercutioyou probably have to chroot into it
with /proc /sys /dev inside
i wonder if ubuntu installer makes that easy
[13:07]
mnathani_probably help to know the error I get on boot? [13:08]
mercutioyeah [13:08]
brycecI remember Debian's rescue mode would chroot and all for you [13:08]
mercutiowhat do you get on bootup
cool brycec
[13:08]
brycec(in other words, maybe Ubuntu "adopted" a similar rescue mode on their livecd) [13:09]
mercutiostressing maybe? :)
you can do mount command to check
[13:09]
mnathani_error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'
entering rescue mode
grub rescue>
[13:10]
mercutiothat does sound strange
where is /boot
[13:10]
mnathani_on the 3tb drive [13:10]
mercutiowhere abouts on the 3tb drive though [13:10]
mnathani_not sure
I left it as defaults
can I force mbr/bios and let the drive show up as 2.something tb
[13:11]
brycecPerhaps it's easiest to just try a clean reinstall and stop when the installer gets to partitioning and examine the defaults for Science. [13:11]
mercutioother people have hit that issue mnathani_
apparently
why not just create 250gb or something for /
and put zfs on the rest
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1284196
looks like grub could have 2tb limit
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mnathani_any idea what I can do differently when I reinstall? [13:15]
mercutioyes
don't use defaults
you can probably use uefi too if it's recent
but you shouldn't need to
but generally speaking with a 3tb drive you probably don't want one huge / anyway
my / is 64gb
with separate /home etc
ie / fits my whole system minus data
but that's with arch, and i don't install stuff i don't use
[13:15]
brycecI usually stick with / at 10GB, and separate home. [13:18]
mercutiobrycec: do you have separate /var ?
my /var is 10gb alone :)
[13:19]
brycecyeah, 10GB is more than fine for a Debian server (for instance)
mercutio: Nope, not on this VPS
[13:19]
mercutioas part of / though
oh talking about vps
i dbout mnathani_ has a 3tb vps :)
[13:19]
brycecOn my desktop /var is part of / (but my / is 63GB, 15GB used) [13:19]
mercutioyeah on vps's it's not so bad normally
brycec: ahh you have the same size as me :)
[13:20]
brycec(My desktop's /var is 7GB)
(used)
[13:20]
mercutio/dev/md1 63G 35G 26G 59% / [13:20]
bryceczroot 63G 15G 48G 25% /
:P
[13:20]
mercutioheh [13:21]
mnathani_s/dbout/doubt [13:21]
BryceBot<mercutio> i doubt mnathani_ has a 3tb vps :) [13:21]
brycec(And because it's Linux root on ZFS, I cannot put /var or /usr on separate slices, alas) [13:21]
mercutiobrycec: can you set lz4 compression on that? [13:21]
brycecYes [13:21]
mercutioi'm being conservative not having / on zfs [13:21]
bryceczroot compressratio 1.53x - [13:21]
mercutionice [13:22]
brycecGets better too :P zroot refcompressratio 1.72x - [13:22]
mercutiomdadm is faster than zfs anyway :) [13:22]
brycecI have no use for mdadm with a single drive :P (plus it's super speedy as is) [13:22]
mercutiois there still issues with mysql on zfs?
heh
yeah it's not like i need the speed
[13:23]
brycecI've never had any issues (running MySQL on FreeBSD/ZFS) [13:23]
mercutiothere's some lack of directio or something issues [13:23]
brycecBeen running it for over a year, no issues.
don't remember what options I have set
[13:24]
mercutioahh
yaeh i think you can disable directio/asyncio
[13:24]
brycecbecause there are options you're supposed to set [13:24]
mercutioi thin problem was it was supporting one but not the other
now my network can do 26 gigabit
i wonder how i'm meant to get my disk speeds up that fast
[13:24]
mnathani_I am at the screen for configuring the partitions [13:25]
mercutiomnathani_: do you want to use zfs? [13:25]
brycechttp://sprunge.us/RBDL if you care, mercutio [13:25]
mnathani_I do not
this is not one of my systems
[13:25]
mercutiook
do you want to have separte /home etc ?
[13:25]
mnathani_end users are not technologically advanced
sure
separate home would be good
[13:26]
mercutioare they going to store all of their user data on /home? [13:26]
mnathani_yes [13:26]
mercutiothen you can probably just go with uhh
128gb / and the rest /home ?
well you may want swap too
[13:27]
mnathani_I need separate boot though? [13:27]
mercutiobut compressed ram file system seems fine usually now :/
not if you have seperate / and /home
and / isn't insanely big
i've seen more problems from separate /boot than help from it
i only really do seperate /boot on complex systems, raid etc.
[13:27]
mnathani_are these primary or logical partitions? [13:28]
mercutioor uefi
with gpt everything is primay
so say partition 1 tiny EF02
partition two /
of 128gb
partition 3 swap of 8gb
partiton 4 /home
of the rest
[13:28]
mnathani_how small is tiny? [13:30]
mercutiowell mine is 1007kb
and sectors 34 through 2047
[13:30]
mnathani_is ef02 the same as reserved bios boot [13:31]
mercutioit's "bios boot partition"
but probably
btw the problem with /boot being seperate is usually that people make it tiny, and ubuntu keeps updating kernels
and so it overflows the boot partition
because each kernel is like 50mb or something
and each minor change means new kernel
also on hard-disks generally speaking having / on start of disk is faster
cos beginning of disk is faster than end
but there are things like chrome which like to spew lots of crap to /home too
[13:31]
m0undsyea, that is a super annoying thing w old ubuntu installs. not sure if they still default o /boot on its own partition or not
just remember dealing with an old lts (6.06 or whatever) at a customer site and it ran out of space for kernel updates
[13:35]
mercutioyeah it's a VERY frequent issue
/boot was useful on really old systems
but anything that can support a 3tb drive is sure to be new enough to not be an issue
[13:37]
mnathani_3rd attempt at installing ubuntu on this desktop today. Hope this one succeeds [13:41]
mercutiofun times :) [13:44]
BryceBotThat's what she said!! [13:44]
mnathani_rebooting now [13:51]
m0undsgood luck [13:51]
mnathani_w00t
works now
thanks mercutio! and brycec!
[13:56]
mercutionow you can stick windows back on it
congrats.
[13:57]
bryceccongrats
mercutio++
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twobithackerAnyone else seeing packet loss? I'm seeing intermittent issues between PCCW and ARP
https://gist.github.com/2bithacker/048c94ee375bc78e091f
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BryceBotGist: "https://gist.github.com/048c94ee375bc78e091f" [15:55]
twobithackerreturn path is over any2ix to HE [15:57]
brycecAre we already getting our daily IPv6 issue? It's not even 5pm.
(ARP time, when the daily IPv6 issues have been cropping up)
Oh you're talking about IPv4
I saw you say HE and assumed :p
[16:00]
twobithackeroddly IPv6 is going to NTT then to HE [16:02]
brycecI wouldn't call that odd. [16:03]
twobithackeryou don't peer with HE for IPv6 on an IX? [16:04]
brycecMe personally? I don't do any peering. [16:04]
fwiw twobithacker I too saw some packet loss from one of my smokeping slaves https://smokeping.cobryce.com/?target=ARP.ARPWebsite.ARPWebsite4
but only one of them...
(and one day, someday, my slaves will upload traceroutes)
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mercutiotwobithacker: he.net has been having issues with ipv6
twobithacker: there's peering with he.net, that's the issue
[16:23]
twobithackermy problem is on v4 though, v6 is working fine [16:24]
mercutioincoming he.net ipv6 traffic is having issues
because he.net send all the traffic in via that path, and they seem to be having issues in los angeles.
oh ipv4 issue
with he.net direct connection?
brycec: the he.net issue is actually different from the congestion issue
the congestion has eased off a lot
[16:24]
twobithackerI'm on Charter, outbound path from ARP is via HE [16:25]
mercutiothe hop having issues suggests it may be arp -> charter being the issue
got a charter ip to trace to?
oh, thunder.2bithacker.net ?
wtf is up with he.net
[16:26]
m0undslax2 again? [16:30]
mercutioprobably
it's like it randomly drops all packets
but the lax tunnel server on ipv6 was completely broken even to www.he.net too
[16:31]
twobithackersentinel.2bithacker.net is my public IPv4 if you're trying to test [16:32]
mercutioit's not slight degredation, it's on/off issues
two: you're finding it stops working compeltely for periods, and then fine again?
[16:32]
twobithackeryeah [16:33]
mercutiook route's changed
tell me if it happens again
err from now
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twobithackerwill do [16:34]
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