Re: Doing a clean install doesn't work as it did before. Tried 8 times, but don't get results I am looking for??

Marco Moock <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:45:45 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
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Am 10.08.26 um 20:28 schrieb Michael D. Setzer II:
> On 10 Aug 2026 at 20:16, Marco Moock wrote:
> 
> Date sent:	Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:16:43 +0200
> Subject:	Re: Doing a clean install doesn't work as it did before. Tried 8
> 	times, but don't get results I am looking for??
> To:	[email protected]
> From:	Marco Moock <[email protected]>
> Send reply to:	Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]>
> 
>> Am 10.08.26 um 19:36 schrieb Michael D. Setzer II via users:
>>> Go a notebook with Windows 11, but windows says it doesn't meet
>>> new specs for latest 11. i7 4 cores 8 threads 2.9G 256G sda.
>>> Wiped the 11, and went to do clean install, but do not want btrfs.
>>> Went thru a number of attempts. Latest one was close but lots of
>>> steps. Attempt 8.
>>> Get to the mount point step. Use to be select standard partitions,
>>> and  it would give a layout and just excepting it was it.
>>> Now it says to create
>>> / root
>>> /boot/efi/efi
>>> /boot
>>
>> Unless you use encryption for /, you do not need a separate /boot partition.
> NOT USING btrfs, so think that needs a separate /boot from /root?

Is / using a file system that is not accessible by GRUB?

>>> Didn't mention /home  but did that.
>>> / was about 80G
>>> boot/efi/efi was .2G
>>> /boot was 2G
>>> and /home rest of 256G.
>>>
>>> Install seemed to go OK,
>>> but found that sda1 was starting at 34 instead of 2048?
>>
>> Alignment. SSD or HDD?
>> You can use gdisk in the terminal and see the first/last sector.
> 
> But had done the creatation under the installation options.
> It said to creat /, /boot/efi/efi, and /boot. All done in the installation
> process. It is what put / starting at 34??

Maybe. I recommend deleting the partition table, creating a new GPT 
table and then the partitions.


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Marco

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