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That's where I think the problem lies Mick. My system is uefi. Too bad that gen too officially doesn't support it. I just wish gentoo developers take a closer look at the issue and come out with uefi capable minimal installation CD and clear uefi installation documentation |
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Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>On Saturday 20 Dec 2014 05:28:49 Tomas Mozes wrote: |
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>> On 2014-12-20 00:57, German wrote: |
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>> > Just a follow up to my original question. I've installed grub on |
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>> > /dev/SDA literally following the quide. And I just realized why I made |
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>> > /dev/sda1 partition obviously designed for grub? Should I have been |
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>> > install grub into /dev/sda1? I also have uefi system and I think it |
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>> > matters. Thanks everyone for clarifications |
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>> > |
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>> > German <gentgerman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> >> Is anyone can advice on where to dig. It seems that grub isn't |
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>> >> installed because I can't access it pressing ESC key and I return to |
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>> >> bios. During installation there were no errors reported, the system |
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>> >> installed grub just fine. Also grub.cfg found all my kernels and |
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>> >> ramdisks? Thanks for any suggestion. What would you do? |
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>> If you have your /dev/sda only for Gentoo, you would install grub into |
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>> /dev/sda and have /dev/sda1 for /boot, for example: |
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>> /dev/sda1: /boot |
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>> /dev/sda2: / |
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>> The bios will load grub from mbr of /dev/sda and since you specify that |
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>> grub can find it's stuff on /dev/sda1 (root), it can continue to find |
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>> the kernel, etc.. Once found, it can load the kernel and mount root, |
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>> because it's the kernel parameter. |
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>> For example: |
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>> root(hd0,0) |
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>> setup (hd0) |
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>> |
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>> Check out |
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>> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy/grub.html#Installing-GRUB-na |
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>> tively |
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>> Or for grub2: |
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>> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 |
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>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Bootloader |
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>> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB |
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>> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start |
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>> You can also have your /boot and / on the same partition. |
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>All of this is good advice, but ONLY IF the MoBo has been configured to boot |
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>in CMS/Legacy_BIOS mode. Otherwise, UEFI will bail out at boot time because |
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>it does neither read, nor use the MBR bootloader. |
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>Depending on the boot options provided by the motherboard, the hard drive can |
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>be configured to boot in legacy-BIOS using an MBR, in UEFI mode using an ESP |
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>partition, or both depending on the BIOS selection at boot time. |
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>-- |
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>Regards, |
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>Mick |
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