From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2213D13838B for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2014 21:29:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ADE4CE0830; Mon, 8 Sep 2014 21:29:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8B16BE07D9 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2014 21:29:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A27BD34014A for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2014 21:29:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.591 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.591 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.610, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-2.499, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=unavailable Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DldFY8nUNLrX for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2014 21:29:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 21389340092 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2014 21:29:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XR6OO-0006ex-7y for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 23:22:32 +0200 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 23:22:32 +0200 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 23:22:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: SUCCESS! Re: MBR partition Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 21:03:37 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20140906030219.GR7971@syscon7> <20140906031059.GS7971@syscon7> <540AA690.1090905@fastmail.co.uk> <20140906104456.GA23438@syscon7> <20140908153627.GB23438@syscon7> 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=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 SeaMonkey/2.26.1) X-Archives-Salt: 96c84515-bdaa-4ba0-9d71-0b32c67fbcd5 X-Archives-Hash: 0dcdea9121ca78f4f58037249f5ad5d5 Joseph gmail.com> writes: > After two days of fighting with it, I was able to get it to work. > It seems to me GPT is not compatible with my old BIOS after all. > Using MBR and an old legacy grub worked. > The fdisk partitioned the /boot partition sda1 starting from 2048 and it > worked without any problems. VERY COOL! Gentoo is worth the effort. Make sure you have backups and some folks build binary packages for a variety of reason. Don't hesitate to ask for help. The Gentoo wiki is getting better and better. It's a place for folks to contribute to the documentation, when they are comfortable with that. enjoy, James