An alternate workaround that I found (I had the same issue) is to run partprobe. It'll find them and add them to /dec whether you have kernel support for GPT or not.
On 07/22/2016 10:49:35 AM, Dmitry Bogun wrote:
Look like you don't have gpt support in kernel.
Many thanks Dmitry,
that was the problem.
Since I have a somewhat older mother board with no UEFI support, I
couldn't image why I need the
EFI GUID Partition support
setting for my kernel.
I have
Look like you don't have gpt support in kernel.
Post output from command "gunzip -c /proc/config.gz | grep '_PARTITION\>'"
> On Jul 22, 2016, at 11:37 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>
> On 07/22/2016 10:28:35 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:04:58 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>>
On 07/22/2016 10:28:35 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:04:58 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> I have zeroed the first 8 MB and then I used gdisk
> gdisk still notes that there is a backup GPT. I opted to created a
new
> blank GPT.
> Then I created 4 partitions.
> I have used th
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:04:58 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> I have zeroed the first 8 MB and then I used gdisk
> gdisk still notes that there is a backup GPT. I opted to created a new
> blank GPT.
> Then I created 4 partitions.
> I have used the w(rite) command before exiting gdisk.
> Starting
Thanks to all of you who have tried to help.
Unfortunately, I am still lost.
I just want to run Gentoo on my system, and the new drive is just for
backup, i.e. it needn't be bootable.
I have zeroed the first 8 MB and then I used gdisk
gdisk still notes that there is a backup GPT. I opted to c
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:01:29 + (UTC), James wrote:
> boot, root and swap that works on both mbr(bios) and efi motherboards?>
I'm not sure it can be done. BIOS needs an EF00 partition at the start.
EFI calls for an EF00 partition, which is recommended at the start but I
don't think it's compu
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > First determine if the motherboards is a Bios or EFI variety.
> > Then, decide which bootloader you are going to use:: grub(legacy) grub2,
> > lilo, gummi, EFI, etc etc? Last, how many different distros will you
> > ultimately be booting off that disk.
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:11:00 + (UTC), James wrote:
>
> > First determine if the motherboards is a Bios or EFI variety.
> >
> > Then, decide which bootloader you are going to use:: grub(legacy) grub2,
> > lilo, gummi, EFI, etc etc? Last, how many different distros wil
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:11:00 + (UTC), James wrote:
> First determine if the motherboards is a Bios or EFI variety.
>
> Then, decide which bootloader you are going to use:: grub(legacy) grub2,
> lilo, gummi, EFI, etc etc? Last, how many different distros will you
> ultimately be booting off t
Helmut Jarausch skynet.be> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> having formatted dozens of hard disks with fdisk, I'm lost with GPT
> partitioning.
>
> My new drive was preformatted for Windows, so I first deleted the two
> partitions which were present.
> Unfortunately I've used fdisk.
> Then I tried to u
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