From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:29:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FFC9EB5.9020903@xunil.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FFB4AC9.3010402@xunil.at>
Am 09.07.2012 23:19, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
> I browse through stuff like:
>
> http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/
>
> and wonder ... (maybe some hours of sleep also help).
>
> Filtering my gentoo-user-IMAP-folder only threw up this thread.
>
> --
>
> Additional "problem": this box dual-boots Win7pro.
Success so far:
converted sda to GPT, added boot-partition, works fine, gentoo and win7.
Also the mdadm-raids, everything OK.
Problem:
if I also convert sdb to GPT, there is no real MBR left in the system,
which makes my HP Elite 7300 MT fail at booting via BIOS (no newer BIOS
available, as far as I googled).
I could boot from sysresccd and chose "boot from first/second harddisk",
this triggered GRUB2 just fine. Several re-installations from within
chroot succeeded, but the BIOS ignored the GPT-tables, even after
pseudo-activating the protecting MBR etc.
So I went back to MBR on sdb.
Maybe I go the EFI-path in the next days, just for learning.
But I wonder how the migration might look like and work out, especially
with that win7pro on board.
It is still a productive box ... (gentoo way more important than win7, sure)
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-10 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-04 8:24 [gentoo-user] Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc Alan McKinnon
2012-07-09 21:19 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-07-10 1:10 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-07-10 18:20 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-07-10 21:29 ` Stefan G. Weichinger [this message]
2012-07-13 21:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-07-13 23:41 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-07-14 8:57 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-07-14 9:25 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-07-14 15:59 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-07-14 17:51 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4FFC9EB5.9020903@xunil.at \
--to=lists@xunil.at \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox