From: James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: setting boot flag on sda1
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 22:06:43 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20140906T000613-470@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20140905214330.GP7971@syscon7
Joseph <syscon780 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Hi James,
>
> I don't want to cause any problems :-/ I'm just trying to boot this piece
> of crap of mine so I can proceed with installation.
> But I'm out of luck. It could be due to my old BIOS not recognizing
> correctly GPT.
>
> I think my only options would be to scrap that GPT and go with MBR,
> as Alex suggested.
Yep, good choice. Many old bios are, well a challenge. Sometimes
vendors have differnt bios and bios versions on the same/similar family
of motherboards. Maybe you can find a bios upgrade for your
old mobo? Sometimes that helps, but you may have to go through
windows and a floppy, or some other archane mechanism to upgrade
the bios. Googling for options on your specific mobo, may be worth
the time?
Here is one example for an "Asus" modbo:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/321172-30-bios-update-motherboard
Your call on that. It may not help your problem with GPT so you have
to research that or go with a MBR setup.
> I try to reboot and still no luck; so I'm getting into conclusion
> that scraping the I have to scrap that GPT.
> I was trying to avoid as it take some time to do it from scratch ;-(
Gentoo is wonderful as a distro; but often one pursues things that
enlighten the brain, but conclude in futility. All the power of the
Gentoo distro and the devs and user community cannot prevent that,
IMHO.....
good hunting!
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-05 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-05 16:14 [gentoo-user] setting boot flag on sda1 Joseph
2014-09-05 17:12 ` Todd Goodman
2014-09-05 17:37 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 18:08 ` Todd Goodman
2014-09-05 19:57 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2014-09-05 20:11 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 20:38 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2014-09-05 20:50 ` James
2014-09-05 21:43 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 22:06 ` James [this message]
2014-09-05 23:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-05 20:41 ` Todd Goodman
2014-09-05 21:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-05 19:32 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2014-09-05 20:29 ` [gentoo-user] " James
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