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On 20/07/13 07:44, luis jure wrote: |
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> from my recent experience, a caveat if you're using GPT to partition your |
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> disk and intend to boot from it: grub won't install on the disk (at least |
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> if you have an old plain BIOS system, i understand this doesn't happen with |
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> UEFI ??? ). |
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> when i tried to run grub2-install i got this error message: |
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> "this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition" |
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> so i had to re-partition the disk and create a small partition at the |
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> beginning without file system and with the bios_grub flag activated. |
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> after that grub installed OK, and i can boot from my GPT partitioned SSD. |
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> i don't know if this can be of use to somebody. |
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> best, |
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> lj |
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You have to map the drive so grub can find it: |
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olympus ~ # cat /boot/grub/device.map |
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(hd0) /dev/sda |
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olympus |
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Also, you can put the boot MBR on any disk - even an old spinner and |
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still have root on the ssd (as above, my ssd is actually /dev/sdd), but |
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the motherboard cant find any (non-usb) boot device unless I create a |
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device.map) - once grub is installed its fine and I think I could delete it. |
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