[gentoo-user] Re: MBR & GPT dual compliant format

2016-07-22 Thread James
R0b0t1 gmail.com> writes: > On Jul 22, 2016 5:43 PM, "Neil Bothwick" digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > I take it this is a limitation of Apple's firmware as I have set up a > > number of uUEFI systems and never had to do this. > It is. There is another document that talks in depth about the issue,

Re: [gentoo-user] nfsv4 issues

2016-07-22 Thread Adam Carter
> >> I don't use systemd on Gentoo but for the nfs-utils upstream-shipped > >> systemd units that I think that Gentoo's using, you have to re-run > >> nfs-config.service - or run the script that it calls - in order to > >> update the "/run/sysconfig/nfs-utils" environment file that's sourced > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] MBR & GPT dual compliant format

2016-07-22 Thread R0b0t1
On Jul 22, 2016 5:43 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > I take it this is a limitation of Apple's firmware as I have set up a > number of uUEFI systems and never had to do this. > It is.

Re: [gentoo-user] MBR & GPT dual compliant format

2016-07-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:53:47 -0500, R0b0t1 wrote: > You need to set the bootable flag in the protective MBR. > > I had to use gdisk and fdisk to make a partition that was bootable by > Apple's EFI. The proper setting does not seem to exist in gdisk, even > though gdisk can read it (oversight by

Re: [gentoo-user] MBR & GPT dual compliant format

2016-07-22 Thread R0b0t1
You need to set the bootable flag in the protective MBR. I had to use gdisk and fdisk to make a partition that was bootable by Apple's EFI. The proper setting does not seem to exist in gdisk, even though gdisk can read it (oversight by the author?).

[gentoo-user] MBR & GPT dual compliant format

2016-07-22 Thread James
Hello, I thought I'd post a new thread on this issue. My goals is to have a single default partition scheme on a sata disk that allows me to use either Bios(mbr) or EFI(gpt) systems on these drives. Also the goal is to keep the partition scheme unchanged (boot;root;swap;'usr/local') but be able

Re: [gentoo-user] nfsv4 issues

2016-07-22 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Adam Carter wrote: >> I don't use systemd on Gentoo but for the nfs-utils upstream-shipped >> systemd units that I think that Gentoo's using, you have to re-run >> nfs-config.service - or run the script that it calls - in order to >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help

2016-07-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help

2016-07-22 Thread Dmitry Bogun
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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help

2016-07-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help

2016-07-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help

2016-07-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
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