Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc
But I wonder how the migration might look like and work out, especially with that win7pro on board. It is still a productive box ... (gentoo way more important than win7, sure) For anyone else attacking this: I now have both GRUB2/Gentoo and Win7pro booting via UEFI here. It *works* so far, still some polishing to do ... but I am quite happy with the situation. SSD added for /root and /home ... all disks GPT now (and disabled BIOS-booting completely). S
Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc
Am 09.07.2012 23:19, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I browse through stuff like: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ and wonder ... (maybe some hours of sleep also help). Filtering my gentoo-user-IMAP-folder only threw up this thread. -- Additional problem: this box dual-boots Win7pro. Success so far: converted sda to GPT, added boot-partition, works fine, gentoo and win7. Also the mdadm-raids, everything OK. Problem: if I also convert sdb to GPT, there is no real MBR left in the system, which makes my HP Elite 7300 MT fail at booting via BIOS (no newer BIOS available, as far as I googled). I could boot from sysresccd and chose boot from first/second harddisk, this triggered GRUB2 just fine. Several re-installations from within chroot succeeded, but the BIOS ignored the GPT-tables, even after pseudo-activating the protecting MBR etc. So I went back to MBR on sdb. Maybe I go the EFI-path in the next days, just for learning. But I wonder how the migration might look like and work out, especially with that win7pro on board. It is still a productive box ... (gentoo way more important than win7, sure) Stefan
Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc
Am 04.01.2012 09:24, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Howdy, Installing on a nice shiny new Dell laptop which has these new-fangled UEFI and 4K-sector disks. Never having worked on these things before, I'm somewhat wary especially as we've had huge threads before on what to do and not do. I don't want to rehash all of that all over again (and the info is somewhat scattered) so I have one simple question: Is this wiki page accurate and worth following: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 You tell *me* ... ;-) As some of you might have noticed I migrated to GRUB2 lately. My current question: Does it make sense to convert/move to GPT-style-partitioning on a current ~amd64 machine? (root-fs on software raid, btw) I browse through stuff like: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ and wonder ... (maybe some hours of sleep also help). Filtering my gentoo-user-IMAP-folder only threw up this thread. -- Additional problem: this box dual-boots Win7pro. Have some of you gentoo-users already been there, done that? Stefan
[gentoo-user] Grub2, uefi, gpt etc etc
Howdy, Installing on a nice shiny new Dell laptop which has these new-fangled UEFI and 4K-sector disks. Never having worked on these things before, I'm somewhat wary especially as we've had huge threads before on what to do and not do. I don't want to rehash all of that all over again (and the info is somewhat scattered) so I have one simple question: Is this wiki page accurate and worth following: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
