From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OCI73-000735-9b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 May 2010 20:01:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7559EE0792; Wed, 12 May 2010 20:00:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E25E0792 for ; Wed, 12 May 2010 20:00:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwb39 with SMTP id 39so312750wwb.40 for ; Wed, 12 May 2010 13:00:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=k2zzAM+vV172s+vf9NoTO5aJCgbXuKUYXEe2MFfmyT8=; b=LSsN5Q/eYZ+/OFee6zOpj1A90YnNmVWBukGeKl52z/jb3Xr91Sxilb3qkU262EeQhr 24kzhX4QmfYha5/pyxZoeOExoZ7SdbOe1v2DmI7TkgEHz5OMJcuzfZFPiyCq0thGuqzS i5MRdQx9jPldIMCYEgAH1HVLu49TBMs0zAqKw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=KKkY2HD1cCFtnPTy2pZDrvZx2860ymjGDROEtrgsVote4xzvH1wSfekNhuPZHj76/0 F+uggrfUuBv+7iral8dlt6pYLj3fNKzW5LVk62W6bcogJJNFhPh9jRrWny9TwvV9rXL6 QYe9naKdbcmsQ6SJzvxGsaSNvs3zi27a99qSA= Received: by 10.227.154.204 with SMTP id p12mr7451268wbw.141.1273694434559; Wed, 12 May 2010 13:00:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y22sm3174427wby.17.2010.05.12.13.00.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 12 May 2010 13:00:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 21:00:21 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (Linux/2.6.33-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.3.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <1273328196.4108.12.camel@opaline> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2486803.FU63bzi6VR"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201005122100.32143.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2bec0314-6b91-49d1-9a7b-6bb7fe0704a5 X-Archives-Hash: 30068d890acc98bc9da0f975d9e6417d --nextPart2486803.FU63bzi6VR Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 10 May 2010 17:01:02 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:16 AM, claude ang=E9loz >=20 > 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 ? >=20 > 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 bo= ot=20 partition? I am not at all familiar with this new way of booting systems. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2486803.FU63bzi6VR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkvrCOAACgkQVTDTR3kpaLaxXQCfbEyhEN5Htc5agw0bKS1HHzbh s8gAoODpJyfNF49ooEJehQE6oJm5l/PB =N5pp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2486803.FU63bzi6VR--