Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:27:28 -0500, Dale wrote:

> I used cgdisk and GPT for my disk even tho it is small, only 300GBs or
> so, mostly out of habit.  The grub install failed and I did a search.  I
> found this and it worked. 
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> grub-install fails with "grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label
> contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible." 

Simple answer, don't use GRUB :-)

Seriously, GRUB is a bootloader, EFI is a bootloader. You are using one
bootloader to load another bootloader before booting the system.

rEFIind and systemd-boot are both boot managers, they work with the EFI
bootloader - or you can boot a kernel directly without a boot manager,
but I prefer not to do that as it gives no opportunity to edit options
when booting.

If you like simple, here is a config file I use with systemd-boot

version 6.1.57-gentoo
linux   /vmlinuz-6.1.57-gentoo
options root=/dev/sda3 panic=10 net.ifnames=0 i915.enable_ips=0

That's it! There is a separate file for each menu entry, but they are
this simple. There's also a global loader.conf, that runs to a massive 2
lines here!


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If you catch an exploding manhole cover, you can keep it.

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