On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 08:55:58PM +0900, janpenguin@??? wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to install Duvuan using Devuan installer few times but all
> the attempts failed due to partitioning the hard disk, followed by
> GRUB installation at the end. So I used Debian installer (7.0 and
> 8.2) to create basic Debian system, and then upgraded to Devuan
> system one by one.
>
> The system setup was
> /dev/sda - bootable USB stick
> /dev/sdb - Hard disk

Here's my partition setup. I used the devuan alpha 2 installer onto an
empty hard drive:

root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik/write/nano# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x512209a8

Device     Boot    Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *        2048   78125055   78123008  37.3G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2       78127102 1953523711 1875396610 894.3G  5 Extended
/dev/sda5       78127104   87889919    9762816   4.7G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6       87891968   89843711    1951744   953M 83 Linux
/dev/sda7       89845760   91797503    1951744   953M 83 Linux
/dev/sda8       91799552   93751295    1951744   953M 83 Linux
/dev/sda9       93753344   95705087    1951744   953M 83 Linux
/dev/sda10      95707136 1953523711 1857816576 885.9G 8e Linux LVM

Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik/write/nano#


The first partition is empty, set aside in case I ever need to dual-boot
with another operating system that needs to be in the first partition.

/dev/sda6 is /boot.
All the other currently used Linux partitions are in /dev/sda10.
'dev/sda7, 8, and 9 are there in case I ever need /boot's for other
Linux systems.
I have found it less troublesome in the past to put /boot in a
traditional partition instead of in an LVM.

Notice the 2048 unused sectors at the start. That's presumably where
grub can reside.
I don't have an EFI partition. My system has a traditional BIOS.

-- hendrik