From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OCKKk-0007k7-OM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 May 2010 22:23:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0045BE08BA; Wed, 12 May 2010 22:22:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9676E08BA for ; Wed, 12 May 2010 22:22:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9F71B4048 for ; Wed, 12 May 2010 22:22:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.948 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.948 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.349, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id A-9-grwYnwOa for ; Wed, 12 May 2010 22:22:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D0D91B402C for ; Wed, 12 May 2010 22:22:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OCKJu-0003CN-EV for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 13 May 2010 00:22:26 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-184-214.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.184.214]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 00:22:26 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-184-214.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 May 2010 00:22:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org connect(): No such file or directory From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 15:22:09 -0700 Message-ID: References: <264561CB-EDC4-46DA-8048-3333FDE076E9@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <4BE3BC4D.3000400@alyf.net> <1273328196.4108.12.camel@opaline> 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 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-184-214.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.2a1pre In-Reply-To: <1273328196.4108.12.camel@opaline> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: a86a81ba-9699-4e45-9ca0-e9ad96ad2500 X-Archives-Hash: 48a7f676c21d7fa95c2621f256c7c741 On 05/08/2010 07:16 AM, claude ang=E9loz wrote: > Hello, > > I installed a gentoo on a very recent system (efi support) . AT the > reception of the laptop it was a disk label msdos, with a boot > partition w** installer ... I changed that against a GPt disk label. I > can install without problem the gentoo , but now it doenst boot. > > I read some docs about gpt,mbr,boot principles and tried some tools > > - install the grub2 masked package and grub-install. > > - a special partion bios_grub as 1st bootable partition. > but actually no succesful... > but in the parted i did not see this "bios_grub" as flag... > > I found some tips from the web , but i guess that was only valid for a > macintel system, not a normal pc with a disk labeled gpt and an efi > support. > > I know that it is not required an efi partiton to boot the os with > pc/bios and gpt disk. Or is it false ? I guarantee that some smart geek here will know how to do it, though you may need to search around for the appropriate forum: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/ BTW, why do you want to use gpt on a laptop?