On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 13:54:07 -0600, Joseph wrote: > >> I don't need to format sda1, grub2-install should take care of it. > >> So what am I doing wrong? > > > >Did you run grub2-install from within the chroot? I've had problems > >with this in the past, no error messages but GRUB is not installed > >correctly. Instead, mount your root and boot partitions at /mnt/gent > >and /mnt/gentoo/boot and run grub2-install from the live system > > > >grub2-install --root-directory=/mnt/gentoo > >--boot-directory=/mnt/gentoo/boot /dev/sda > > This will install grub in /mnt/gentoo/boot and will be gone after I > reboot.
GRUB is already installed there, when you emerged it. grub-install sets up the bootstrapping, but it needs to know where the files are, and they are in /mnt/gentoo. I've done it this way several times and it always worked, your way has not worked. You decide which is preferable. > I was able to boot the system with systemrescue CD the kernel on the > HD. The problem I have is my BIOS does not recognize GPT partition On what factual evidence do you base that statement? > I think I'll have to format entire drive in MBR and start from scratch. > How to format disk in MBR, current "fdisk" defaults to GPT. fdisk doesn't default to anything AFAIR, it creates whatever type of partition table you tell it to, depending on whether you press g or o. -- Neil Bothwick Home is where you hang your @.
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