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From: Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 06:37:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140905123700.GD7971@syscon7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140905090442.6167a914@digimed.co.uk>

On 09/05/14 09:04, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>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=x86_64-efi`.
>>
>> How do I mount EFI boot partition?
>> 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.
>
>
>-- 
>Neil Bothwick
>
>Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is 100%.

My BIOS if from 1998 I think so it is not EFI. 
I don't think I'm suppose to be doing this EFI.

"...UEFI (~EFI) is a firmware interface that is widespread on recent computers, especially those more recent than 2010. It is intended to replace the traditional 
BIOS firmware interface that is prevalent on earlier machines. "

So think I should scrap the partition sda1 and sda2 and combine them into one partition and install grub (not grub2).

-- 
Joseph


  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-05 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-05  0:17 [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device Joseph
2014-09-05  0:36 ` Joseph
2014-09-05  2:41   ` Daniel Frey
2014-09-05  3:14     ` Joseph
2014-09-05  3:42       ` Daniel Frey
2014-09-05  3:44       ` Daniel Frey
2014-09-05  4:08         ` Joseph
2014-09-05  4:30           ` Sid S
2014-09-05  3:46     ` Joseph
2014-09-05  8:04       ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-05 12:37         ` Joseph [this message]
2014-09-05 12:44           ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-05 13:06             ` Joseph
2014-09-05 13:11               ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-05 13:38                 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 14:25                   ` Rich Freeman
2014-09-05 14:54                     ` Joseph
2014-09-05 15:08                     ` Joseph
2014-09-05 14:02                 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 19:26                   ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-05 19:54                     ` Joseph
2014-09-05 21:06                       ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-05 22:07                         ` Joseph
2014-09-05 22:32                           ` Bill Kenworthy
2014-09-05 23:36                           ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-05 17:55                 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 18:20                   ` J. Roeleveld
2014-09-05 19:22                     ` Joseph
2014-09-05 19:24                   ` Neil Bothwick

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