From: William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration - caveat
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 09:51:23 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51E9ED1B.2040508@iinet.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130719204409.453daca8@acme7.acmenet>
On 20/07/13 07:44, luis jure wrote:
>
>
> from my recent experience, a caveat if you're using GPT to partition your
> disk and intend to boot from it: grub won't install on the disk (at least
> if you have an old plain BIOS system, i understand this doesn't happen with
> UEFI ??? ).
>
> when i tried to run grub2-install i got this error message:
>
> "this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition"
>
> so i had to re-partition the disk and create a small partition at the
> beginning without file system and with the bios_grub flag activated.
>
> after that grub installed OK, and i can boot from my GPT partitioned SSD.
>
> i don't know if this can be of use to somebody.
>
> best,
>
>
> lj
>
You have to map the drive so grub can find it:
olympus ~ # cat /boot/grub/device.map
(hd0) /dev/sda
olympus
Also, you can put the boot MBR on any disk - even an old spinner and
still have root on the ssd (as above, my ssd is actually /dev/sdd), but
the motherboard cant find any (non-usb) boot device unless I create a
device.map) - once grub is installed its fine and I think I could delete it.
BillK
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Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-18 21:22 [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration luis jure
2013-07-18 21:40 ` Davide De Prisco
2013-07-18 22:08 ` luis jure
2013-07-19 6:46 ` Davide De Prisco
2013-07-18 22:23 ` Paul Hartman
2013-07-18 22:46 ` William Kenworthy
2013-07-19 2:56 ` luis jure
2013-07-19 6:56 ` Dale
2013-07-19 7:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-19 8:22 ` Dale
2013-07-19 8:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-19 8:55 ` Dale
2013-07-19 9:33 ` Randolph Maaßen
2013-07-19 9:51 ` Helmut Jarausch
2013-07-19 17:47 ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-19 18:45 ` Paul Hartman
2013-07-19 21:19 ` luis jure
2013-07-19 22:57 ` Dale
2013-07-19 14:30 ` Paul Hartman
2013-07-19 14:42 ` luis jure
2013-07-19 16:43 ` Dale
2013-07-19 18:45 ` Mick
2013-07-19 18:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-20 2:56 ` Stroller
2013-07-19 19:02 ` Paul Hartman
2013-07-20 14:26 ` SSDs, VM SANs & RAID - WAS " Tanstaafl
2013-07-20 18:43 ` Pandu Poluan
2013-07-22 21:42 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-07-22 22:22 ` Paul Hartman
2013-07-22 22:26 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-07-22 22:38 ` Paul Hartman
2013-07-19 19:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-19 23:03 ` Dale
2013-07-19 23:23 ` luis jure
2013-07-19 23:39 ` Dale
2013-07-19 23:58 ` luis jure
2013-07-20 0:32 ` Dale
2013-07-20 1:01 ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-20 1:34 ` Dale
2013-07-20 2:11 ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-20 5:12 ` Dale
2013-07-21 7:13 ` Mick
2013-07-21 9:40 ` Dale
2013-07-21 9:57 ` Mick
2013-07-21 10:10 ` Dale
2013-07-21 10:10 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-20 7:42 ` pk
2013-07-20 11:59 ` luis jure
2013-07-20 16:25 ` pk
2013-07-20 20:02 ` Dale
2013-07-20 21:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-20 22:00 ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-20 22:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-20 22:38 ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-20 22:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-20 23:02 ` William Kenworthy
2013-07-20 23:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-21 9:14 ` Peter Humphrey
2013-07-21 9:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-21 13:39 ` Peter Humphrey
2013-07-22 20:23 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-07-23 7:41 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-07-23 8:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-21 9:47 ` Dale
2013-07-20 0:35 ` Paul Hartman
2013-07-20 0:50 ` Dale
2013-07-20 21:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-20 1:55 ` Stroller
2013-07-22 21:54 ` Randy Barlow
2013-07-20 10:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-20 13:02 ` Peter Humphrey
2013-07-20 19:50 ` Dale
2013-07-20 21:55 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-21 9:50 ` Dale
2013-07-21 10:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-20 21:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-19 22:00 ` luis jure
2013-07-19 22:11 ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-19 23:34 ` luis jure
2013-07-20 0:58 ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-19 22:29 ` William Kenworthy
2013-07-19 23:06 ` Bruce Hill
2013-07-19 23:44 ` [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration - caveat luis jure
2013-07-20 1:51 ` William Kenworthy [this message]
2013-07-20 3:32 ` luis jure
2013-07-22 20:06 ` Michael Hampicke
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