On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:16 AM, claude angéloz <claude.ange...@bluewin.ch> 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 ? > > If anybody has an other idea. Or I must abandon the gpt disk label ? > Is there an equivalent refitr in OS x86 ?
I'm using GPT partitions and with the grub-0.97-r9 in Gentoo it has patches to boot from GPT disks. I just did normal grub install as usual and everything seems to work. I'm not using the partition label, though, but only "root (hd0,0)"
