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

On 10 Aug 2026 at 20:45, Marco Moock wrote:

Date sent:	Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:45:45 +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:	Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]>
From:	Marco Moock <[email protected]>
Send reply to:	Community support for Fedora users <[email protected]>

> 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?
Went back and checked.
It shows / is required
/boot/efi is required 
/boot is reccomended 

I then added /home since most of my setups have /home as a 
separate partition, but this machine care with a 256G drive. 

 sfdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 238.47 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
Disk model: SanDisk X400 M.2
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 600FB85B-497C-4252-8055-9C6E96A1CC5A

Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1       2048 169037823 169035776  80.6G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda2  169039872 169431039    391168   191M EFI System
/dev/sda3  169431040 173336575   3905536   1.9G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda4  173336576 500117503 326780928 155.8G Linux 
filesystem

# df 
Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1       82609464 7719896  70647296  10% /
devtmpfs         7945176       0   7945176   0% /dev
tmpfs            8119764       0   8119764   0% /dev/shm
efivarfs             384     126       254  34% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
tmpfs            3247908    1736   3246172   1% /run
none                1024       0      1024   0% 
/run/credentials/systemd-journald.service
none                1024       0      1024   0% 
/run/credentials/systemd-resolved.service
tmpfs            8119764       4   8119760   1% /tmp
/dev/sda3        1883580  454452   1315108  26% /boot
/dev/sda4      159715356  241356 151288096   1% /home
/dev/sda2         195368   20508    174860  11% /boot/efi
tmpfs            1623952      88   1623864   1% /run/user/977
tmpfs            1623952      80   1623872   1% /run/user/1000

for /dev/sda2 I used .2G as size. and it formated as efi all other 
partitions used ext4

Again it created sda1 starting at 34, so I used gparted to get it to 
the 2048 normal start.



> 
> >>> 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Gruß
> Marco
> 
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