Debian Wheezy, UEFI / EFI, GPT, RAID1, encryption, LVM, ZFS (zfs-on-linux)

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you are making a special partition for /boot, but why not to put it on LVM?

"A-a-a" and "a-a-a", "a-a-a" again, then some more "a-a-a"...
Couldn't you control yourself?
Are you trying to ruin the excellent impression people have watching your cool guide?

Friendly warning: This kind of setup fails when upgrading to debian 8 or 9.... There is no /etc/init.d/mdadm-raid script to build and assemble the md2 array

This would be a great video if only you could go through the menu options more slowly. You were going a bit too fast for me.

great video thank you.. The accent was fine too :-), do not worry ..

Great tutorial! Thanks a bunch!

I''m having a problem with EFI too. After restarting the machine I get the following from grub: error: file not found grub rescue>

i think grub still looking for sda(x) and because sda doesn't exist that is why sdb doesn't boot I guess

after time I followed your tutorial everything works fine except EFI. I did the steps after the installation dd if=/dev/sda1 so on so on....I compare both partition sda1 and sdb1 and I got the same result as you. I build the md2 it works fine after the reboot so everything looks exactly like your tutorial except for one thing. I expect after erase disk sda from the VMachine the system boots without problem but it doesn't, any clue?. I mean your tutorial make sense for me but sdb doesn't boot

hi I request a tutorial about RAID administration! things like faulures and assembles, snapshots, rezise LVM etc etc :)

flash works for me (but I try to not use it most of the time, I just do not like it). I never had problems with codecs for years now (most time using smplayer/mplayer for videos, sometimes vlc or totem, for audio I use mpd+sonata). Steam is a bit more problematic, but possible. I am using small Ubuntu schroot to keep steam and all games, and it works with some tweaks to graphics drivers. I think I will create a steam install tutorial for Debian soon. I am very happy with Debian in general :)

yeah but what about proprietary software such as flash, codecs ans steam?

Debian wheezy obviously :) Debian testing or sid if you want having more fun.

which distrbution do you like as a main opratve system bro?

wow!! man this is the best tutorial I've ever seen!! keep doing tutorials! where are you from buddy? I say "hi" from Canada but I'm from Mexico :)

When creating new partion table you need to select EFI (GPT), then you should be able to create efi boot partition. Is your hard drive empty (brand new), or it is reinstall / dual booting? Are you sure you booted your image using efi and not bios (legacy mode)? What motherboard you have? You may try checking on console (ALT-F2, then enter for shell), by 'dmesg | grep efi' (without quotes), if it shows something it means you are using efi, if it displayes nothing, you are using BIOS for booting.

Few not mentioned things, I noticed later. When doing zpool, add -O ashift=12, so it will use 4096 sectors, even if device or encrypted device lays about sectors. All other layers (luks, dm, lvm), should properly align embeded data. If you are using SSD, you may however change "luks", to "luks,discard" in /etc/crypttab. This way TRIM support will be supported, for a small decress in security. For repeating password, use key=/root/secret.txt (random password), chmod og-rwx it, and backup it!