Re: [gentoo-user] Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Monday 10 May 2010 17:01:02 Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:16 AM, claude angéloz
> 
> <claude.angeloz@bluewin.ch> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I installed a gentoo on a very recent system  (efi support) . AT the
> > reception of the laptop  it was a disk label msdos, with a boot
> > partition w** installer ... I changed that against  a GPt disk label. I
> > can install without problem the gentoo , but now it doenst boot.
> >
> > I read some docs about gpt,mbr,boot principles and tried some tools
> >
> > - install the grub2 masked package and grub-install.
> >
> > - a special partion bios_grub  as 1st bootable partition.
> > but actually no succesful...
> > but in the parted i did not see this "bios_grub" as  flag...
> >
> > I found some  tips from the web , but i guess that was only valid for a
> > macintel system, not a normal pc  with a disk labeled gpt and an efi
> > support.
> >
> > I know that it is not required  an  efi partiton to boot the os with
> > pc/bios and gpt disk. Or is it false ?
> >
> > If anybody has an other idea. Or I must  abandon the gpt disk label ?
> > Is there an equivalent refitr in OS x86  ?
> 
> I'm using GPT partitions and with the grub-0.97-r9 in Gentoo it has
> patches to boot from GPT disks. I just did normal grub install as
> usual and everything seems to work. I'm not using the partition label,
> though, but only "root (hd0,0)"

Interesting.  Does grub install its bootloader into the MBR, or in a GPT boot 
partition?  I am not at all familiar with this new way of booting systems.
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Regards,
Mick

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