Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/29/2017 09:29 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: > Mick wrote: >> - You have run the efibootmgr command with the right syntax, options and >> parameters and have run it a second time as 'efibootmgr -v' to verify its >> output shows correctly the path to your gentoo kernel image. > > Can't do this

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-29 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/29/2017 09:07 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: > Mick wrote: >> On Saturday 28 Jan 2017 20:24:34 Alan Grimes wrote: > > Dudes, sorry, I obviously have a crossed-neuron in my brain and can't > remember MFT versus GPT because they are so conceptually similar, Give > it a rest. Please don't waste more

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 12:29:52 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote: > > - You have run the efibootmgr command with the right syntax, options > > and parameters and have run it a second time as 'efibootmgr -v' to > > verify its output shows correctly the path to your gentoo kernel > > image. > > Can't do

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-29 Thread Alan Grimes
Mick wrote: > - You have run the efibootmgr command with the right syntax, options and > parameters and have run it a second time as 'efibootmgr -v' to verify its > output shows correctly the path to your gentoo kernel image. Can't do this step because of chicken and egg conflict. -- Strange

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-29 Thread Alan Grimes
Mick wrote: > On Saturday 28 Jan 2017 20:24:34 Alan Grimes wrote: Dudes, sorry, I obviously have a crossed-neuron in my brain and can't remember MFT versus GPT because they are so conceptually similar, Give it a rest. Please don't waste more than a single line correcting me. =( I'll be first in

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 20:24:34 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:11:28 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote: > > > > It appears to be a 2-stage boot process: > > > > BIOS boot -> Binary of GRUB bootstrap loader. > > You don't have a BIOS with a UEFI system. > > We

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-29 Thread Mick
On Saturday 28 Jan 2017 20:24:34 Alan Grimes wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:11:28 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote: > > > > It appears to be a 2-stage boot process: > > > > BIOS boot -> Binary of GRUB bootstrap loader. > > You don't have a BIOS with a UEFI system. > > We were

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-28 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/28/2017 05:24 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:11:28 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote: >> >> It appears to be a 2-stage boot process: >> >> BIOS boot -> Binary of GRUB bootstrap loader. >> You don't have a BIOS with a UEFI system. > > We were discussing BIOS

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-28 Thread Alan Grimes
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:11:28 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote: > > It appears to be a 2-stage boot process: > > BIOS boot -> Binary of GRUB bootstrap loader. > You don't have a BIOS with a UEFI system. We were discussing BIOS boot on a MFT partition scheme, which is what I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 12:11:28 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote: > >> Device Start End Sectors Size Type > >> /dev/sdc12048264191262144 128M EFI System > >> /dev/sdc2 526336 537233407 536707072 255.9G Linux filesystem > >> /dev/sdc3 264192526335262144 128M BIOS boot

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-28 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: > > Had another learning experience with respect to how GPT disks work., > system is buttoned up and operating in GPT mode. In old systems, the > boot sectors and bootstrap loaders were kinda consigned to a digital >

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-28 Thread Alan Grimes
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 08:41:44 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote: > >> Device Start End Sectors Size Type >> /dev/sdc12048264191262144 128M EFI System >> /dev/sdc2 526336 537233407 536707072 255.9G Linux filesystem >> /dev/sdc3 264192526335262144

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 08:41:44 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote: > Device Start End Sectors Size Type > /dev/sdc12048264191262144 128M EFI System > /dev/sdc2 526336 537233407 536707072 255.9G Linux filesystem > /dev/sdc3 264192526335262144 128M BIOS boot You don't

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-27 Thread Alan Grimes
Alan Grimes wrote: [] Had another learning experience with respect to how GPT disks work., system is buttoned up and operating in GPT mode. In old systems, the boot sectors and bootstrap loaders were kinda consigned to a digital pergatory on the drive, now you just have to give it its own 1mb

[gentoo-user] SNAFU: TO THE N'TH POWER!

2017-01-27 Thread Alan Grimes
To make a boot disk in DOS you have two options. Format /s x: and Sys x: Once this is done, the new disk will boot perfectly [period] . So what I did was I deleted my botched UEFI partition, and created two new partitions, each of half-size. I mark ... well.: #33