From: Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New system doesn't recognized bootable devise
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:08:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2309363.ElGaqSPkdT@rogueboard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5cca58c5-68fc-1786-d34d-9ed951413dd6@sys-concept.com>
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On Monday, 20 November 2023 23:49:14 GMT thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 11/20/23 11:26, Michael wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > The first thing to establish is if your SSD is using MBR partitioning, or
> > GPT:
> >
> > fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep 'Disklabel type'
> >
> > will output "dos" for MBR, or "gpt" for GPT. I suspect your SSD is using
> > MBR.
> fdisk -l /dev/sda | grep 'Disklabel type'
>
> is showing "DOS" not MBR, does it change anything.
Please read again what I wrote above, if the partition table is of the MBR
type then the fdisk output is indeed "dos".
> Booting from Gparted is showing:
> Boot partition is - ext2
> swap
> and root/ - ext4
>
> I was thinking to boot strap the disk /dev/sda/ and partition it to GPT/UEFI
> if I have gdisk installed on this computer.
The UEFI MoBo firmware will not boot any .efi image from an ext2 partition.
It requires a FAT32 partition in which GRUB must be installed:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/EFI_System_Partition
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Bootloader
Don't forget to create a backup of your data, before you embark on this
exercise.
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2023-11-20 1:25 [gentoo-user] New system doesn't recognized bootable devise thelma
2023-11-20 8:28 ` Michael
2023-11-20 17:44 ` thelma
2023-11-20 18:26 ` Michael
2023-11-20 19:44 ` thelma
2023-11-20 23:49 ` thelma
2023-11-21 0:08 ` Michael [this message]
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