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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 09:08:27 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140905150827.GI7971@syscon7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGfcS_k5jbPi966+M2VS1tY-WQ9ya1SmyUN2_hsEdZhhge4stw@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/05/14 10:25, Rich Freeman wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ls -al /boot/
>> total 8671
>> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root    1024 Sep  4 14:29 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 21 root root    4096 Sep  4 16:51 ..
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   94478 Sep  4 11:41 config-3.14.14-gentoo
>> drwxr-xr-x  6 root root    1024 Sep  4 18:56 grub
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root       0 Aug 27 19:26 .keep
>> drwx------  2 root root   12288 Sep  4 09:06 lost+found
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 3037035 Sep  4 11:41 System.map-3.14.14-gentoo
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 5689632 Sep  4 11:41 vmlinuz-3.14.14-gentoo
>>
>> kernel is there, grub is installed.  Where did I made a mistake?
>
>Are you SURE grub is installed?  Also, what version of grub are you
>using, and have you confirmed that it is compatible with GPT?
>
>Sticking some files in /boot/grub is only the first step in installing
>grub.  It needs to be present in your boot sector and all the files it
>needs need to be in the right places, including its stage2 bootloader
>or whatever they call it these days.

What information grub2 is writing to sda1 "BIOS boot partition" ? and how do I verify it?
Grub2 installed files on sda2 "/boot" partition but it seems to me it did nothing to sda1 as my BIOS does not see anything on it so it can not find the /boot or 
kernel.

-- 
Joseph


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-05 15:08 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
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 [this message]
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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