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On 09/05/14 20:26, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 08:02:08 -0600, Joseph wrote: |
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>> I don't need to format sda1, grub2-install should take care of it. So |
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>> what am I doing wrong? |
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>Did you run grub2-install from within the chroot? I've had problems with |
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>this in the past, no error messages but GRUB is not installed correctly. |
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>Instead, mount your root and boot partitions at /mnt/gent |
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>and /mnt/gentoo/boot and run grub2-install from the live system |
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>grub2-install --root-directory=/mnt/gentoo --boot-directory=/mnt/gentoo/boot /dev/sda |
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This will install grub in /mnt/gentoo/boot and will be gone after I reboot. |
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I was able to boot the system with systemrescue CD the kernel on the HD. The problem I have is my BIOS does not recognize GPT partition |
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I think I'll have to format entire drive in MBR and start from scratch. |
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How to format disk in MBR, current "fdisk" defaults to GPT. |
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Joseph |
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