Re: [gentoo-user] Re: setting boot flag on sda1

[Joseph]

On 09/05/14 20:50, James wrote:
>Joseph <syscon780 <at> gmail.com> writes:
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>> But where to find older fdisk and in stall it from chroot environment.
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>Long answer. You are setting me up for another round of flame_arrows.
>YOU should follow the advise you are given on how to solve your problem.
>
>You are "hard headed"...... You'll do well with Gentoo.
>
>caveat emptor!
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>So "equery belongs fdisk" shows me:
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>sys-apps/util-linux-2.24.1-r3 (/usr/share/bash-completion/fdisk)
>sys-apps/util-linux-2.24.1-r3 (/sbin/fdisk)
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>"eix util-linux"
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>Should do the trick I'm assuming you know how to emerge a specific
>version of a package)?
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>Or you can always look here?
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>http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/
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>more specifically:
>http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/util-linux/
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>
>hth,
>James

Hi James,

I don't want to cause any problems :-/ I'm just trying to boot this piece of crap of mine so I can proceed with installation.
But I'm out of luck. It could be due to my old BIOS not recognizing correctly GPT.

I think my only options would be to scrap that GPT and go with MBR, as Alex suggested.

Yes, I know how to install specific version.

I have tried to use gdisk "expert mode"
gdisk /dev/sda
x - expert mode
a 
1

and I set flags: "0" - system partition and "2" legacy BIOS bootable

I try to reboot and still no luck; so I'm getting into conclusion that scraping the I have to scrap that GPT.
I was trying to avoid as it take some time to do it from scratch ;-(

-- 
Joseph