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From: Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:54:11
Message-Id: 20140905145413.GH7971@syscon7
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device by Rich Freeman
1 On 09/05/14 10:25, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 >On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> ls -al /boot/
4 >> total 8671
5 >> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Sep 4 14:29 .
6 >> drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Sep 4 16:51 ..
7 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94478 Sep 4 11:41 config-3.14.14-gentoo
8 >> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 Sep 4 18:56 grub
9 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 27 19:26 .keep
10 >> drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Sep 4 09:06 lost+found
11 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3037035 Sep 4 11:41 System.map-3.14.14-gentoo
12 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5689632 Sep 4 11:41 vmlinuz-3.14.14-gentoo
13 >>
14 >> kernel is there, grub is installed. Where did I made a mistake?
15 >
16 >Are you SURE grub is installed? Also, what version of grub are you
17 >using, and have you confirmed that it is compatible with GPT?
18 >
19 >Sticking some files in /boot/grub is only the first step in installing
20 >grub. It needs to be present in your boot sector and all the files it
21 >needs need to be in the right places, including its stage2 bootloader
22 >or whatever they call it these days.
23 >
24 >--
25 >Rich
26
27 The sda has a gpt partition and I installed grub2 according to Gentoo handbook, everything went without errors but it will not boot.
28
29 I'm still reading the instructions you posted in the link:
30 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/partitioning#Choosing_between_GPT_and_MBR
31
32 Gentoo instructions is getting old and obsolete, hardly explain anything. I've installed Gentoo many time and always booted first time after installation.
33
34 --
35 Joseph