On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Facu Curti <facu.cu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all. First at all i apologize if my english is not enough. > When I installed gentoo, I do that with UEFI, and gpt partitions. But > right now, I tried to install XEN, and this not works with EFI. I cant > wait until somebody fix this problem, So i'm thinking to change "EFI" to > "BIOS" boot. > > So, I deleted the efi (/boot/efi) partition, edited make.conf, and deleted > /etc/default/grub. > > After that, I made a new partition with bios_grub > flag. As explained in [1]. And reinstalled grub2 (with new flags). > But I can't boot. Anyway, I can boot from a live cd without > efi, so the problem is not in bios. Did you enable BIOS compatibility mode in the firmware? Different firmwares have different names for this but a common one is CSM (compatibility support module). > I can't find the problem. ¿Some ideas? > > parted -l /dev/sdb: > > Model: ATA KINGSTON SV300S3 (scsi) > Disk /dev/sdb: 120GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: gpt > Disk Flags: > > Numero Inicio Fin Tamaño Sistema de ficheros Nombre Banderas > 1 1049kB 11,5MB 10,5MB bios_grub > 2 58,7MB 24,8GB 24,7GB ext4 rootfs arranque > 3 24,8GB 28,8GB 3999MB linux-swap(v1) swap > 4 28,8GB 120GB 91,2GB ext4 home > > I made install with: > grub2-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --debug /dev/sdb > grub2-mkconfig /boot/grub/grub.cfg It's "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg".
