On Monday 10 May 2010 17:01:02 Paul Hartman wrote: > 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)"
Interesting. Does grub install its bootloader into the MBR, or in a GPT boot partition? I am not at all familiar with this new way of booting systems. -- Regards, Mick
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