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 91E2913877A for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 15:08:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AEE0E0ADD; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 15:08:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail119c7.megamailservers.com (mail104c7-2520.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.20]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1BA59E0960 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 15:08:17 +0000 (UTC) X-POP-User: admin@sys-concept.com X-VIP: 69.49.109.100 Received: from syscon7.localdomain (S01060050da7ae68c.ed.shawcable.net [68.149.90.13]) by mail119c7.megamailservers.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id s85F8F0e015520 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 11:08:17 -0400 Received: by syscon7.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C19AC20027E; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 09:08:27 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 09:08:27 -0600 From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device Message-ID: <20140905150827.GI7971@syscon7> References: <20140905003621.GJ7483@syscon7> <540922BF.4090708@gmail.com> <20140905034614.GB7971@syscon7> <20140905090442.6167a914@digimed.co.uk> <20140905123700.GD7971@syscon7> <20140905134424.7b94d5e5@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <20140905130627.GE7971@syscon7> <20140905141102.23b728db@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <20140905133811.GF7971@syscon7> 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: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A02020A.5409D1E1.0107,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.1 cv=b+2LvL2x c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:117 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:17 a=SDcUNfBxAAAA:8 a=BDKbP5mgAAAA:8 a=Unq3plm5DvEA:10 a=M1kyBYkWWGkA:10 a=t13s2OSXYqYA:10 a=ROiWby8cJu4A:10 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=SuZAwrR7YK8oeo9zlJEA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 X-Archives-Salt: 35c818ed-17e4-4e41-baed-3132ff0219e0 X-Archives-Hash: cc89fe27956f69a1494c4816c3f30a41 On 09/05/14 10:25, Rich Freeman wrote: >On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Joseph 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