Need help assigning partition for installation

jarp53 · November 13, 2021, 8:47am

I have four hard drives, the one I want to use has two partitions, sdb1 and sdb2, I want to use sdb2 so when I choose delete and then reclaim the installer creates a 1gb partition sdb2, and 58 gb sdb3 and thats where it proceeds with the installation; my default disk has Manjaro, and grub has no problem seeing fedora, but the boot menu only sees all the systems including the distro that is on sdb1 but not sdb3; why does the installer creates sdb3 and how can I get the boot menu to see fedora ; I’m trying to install xfce

dalto · November 13, 2021, 1:03pm

By default, the installer creates two partitions. One for /boot and one for the rest of your system.

I don’t think this is related to your problem though.

I am not sure I understand what this means. What do you mean grub has no problem seeing fedora but the boot menu doesn’t include sdb3? If grub can see Fedora it should be adding it to the boot menu.

To help further we need some additional info:

Which OSes grub are you booting into?
If it is Manjaro’s grub, have you tried running sudo update-grub from within Manjaro since you installed Fedora?
Can we see the output of sudo parted -l? You can do this from any of your installed distros.

jarp53 · November 13, 2021, 4:37pm

sorry I deleted the installation and was waiting for an answer before I try again. but yes running the update-grub command is how I know that Manjaro in my default drive was seeing fedora,

jarp53 · November 13, 2021, 8:00pm

so I reinstall and I think the problem is with Manjaro ,
[jr@fedora ~]$ sudo parted -l
[sudo] password for jr:
Model: ATA SPCC Solid State (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 64.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 64.0GB 64.0GB primary ext4 boot

Model: ATA ADATA SU800 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 128GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 64.0GB 64.0GB primary ext4
2 64.0GB 65.1GB 1074MB primary ext4 boot
3 65.1GB 128GB 62.9GB primary btrfs

Model: ATA DREVO X1 SSD (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 60.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 56.9GB 56.9GB primary ext4 boot
2 56.9GB 60.0GB 3087MB primary linux-swap(v1)

Model: ATA KingDian S200 60 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdd: 60.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 53.5MB 52.4MB primary ntfs boot
2 53.5MB 59.5GB 59.4GB primary ntfs
3 59.5GB 60.0GB 533MB primary ntfs msftres

Model: Unknown (unknown)
Disk /dev/zram0: 8590MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B
Partition Table: loop
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 8590MB 8590MB linux-swap(v1)

[jr@fedora ~]$

in the drive Adata is sdb3 as btrfs which is fedora 35, if I start the drive from system boot menu fedora starts in fact that’s what I’m using right now; but still not in Manjaro’s boot menu and of course I did run update-grub.

jarp53 · November 13, 2021, 8:13pm

so I reinstall ,this time I use stray fedora 35, no spin, but I don’t think that was the problem, updated grub fedora shows up like normal, but not in the boot menu,
[jr@fedora ~]$ sudo parted -l
[sudo] password for jr:
Model: ATA SPCC Solid State (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 64.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: