From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2A9213877A for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 08:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1EAB2E096E; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 08:05:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D46EBE0877 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 08:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 6C51121576 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 09:04:51 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 09:04:42 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device Message-ID: <20140905090442.6167a914@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140905034614.GB7971@syscon7> References: <20140905001746.GI7483@syscon7> <20140905003621.GJ7483@syscon7> <540922BF.4090708@gmail.com> <20140905034614.GB7971@syscon7> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1-119-g7fbc83 (GTK+ 2.24.24; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/4Deot+sKH6_PyCuozYOdBf9"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 7bd1f4b0-3e9e-4b46-b971-2b4bb1ab0ac0 X-Archives-Hash: ba700a810b31feb7202d7552b76dbc0d --Sig_/4Deot+sKH6_PyCuozYOdBf9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 21:46:14 -0600, Joseph wrote: > >You need to mount /boot, and mount the EFI boot partition before > >installing grub2 using `grub2-install --target=3Dx86_64-efi`. =20 >=20 > How do I mount EFI boot partition? =20 > Is it the /dev/sda1 2M That's the BIOS compatibility partition. There appears to be some confusion here, does your hardware use EFI or is it traditional BIOS. The approaches are very different and all of the advice in this thread s for EFI but your previous posts made no mention of it. --=20 Neil Bothwick Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is 100%. --Sig_/4Deot+sKH6_PyCuozYOdBf9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlQJbp8ACgkQum4al0N1GQPG9wCg0zF5hhvbq2otA6jS+1DyLmyN P7MAn2Z6KtNyf57HGaBDcwbGl5zLMCmZ =FzOk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/4Deot+sKH6_PyCuozYOdBf9--