On 03/20/2013 09:29 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > >> I have done some (not much) research and it looks like linux only >> supports booting to gtp partitions only if using 64 bit os. This is >> from the Fedora site. I am going to Arch linux site to see if they say >> the same. > What I read was that Windows doesn't support gpt on a 32-bit system. > > Here is a link I found: http://www.funtoo.org/wiki/GUID_Booting_Guide > > The example table is outdated. We really don't want the first partition > to start at sector 34. gpt does the right thing by default and aligns > everything at 1 MiB boundaries. > > See also https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GUID_Partition_Table > > Note there is says: > > GRUB(2) requires a 1007 KiB BIOS Boot Partition (EF02 type code in gdisk > and bios_grub flag in GNU Parted) in BIOS systems to embed its core.img > file due to lack of post-MBR embed gap in GPT disks. Runtime GPT support > in GRUB(2) is provided by the part_gpt module. > > The grub partition is raw (unformatted). I think I posted this before. > > Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name > 1 2082 4129 1024.0 KiB EF02 BIOS boot part > 2 4130 208929 100.0 MiB 8300 Linux fs > 3 208930 8392737 3.9 GiB 8300 Linux fs > 4 8392738 11968424 1.7 GiB 8200 Linux swap > 5 11968425 20971486 4.3 GiB 8300 Linux fs > > -- Bruce
Have a look at this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GPT It looks very complicated just to get win7 and linux to boot with UEFI and gpt and I am not sure that I can have a 32 bit linux and a 64 bit linux. I think I will just stay with MBR and LVM, much simpler. I get the same thing and don't have to go through all the trouble of setting all that schist up. Install Win7 64 bit on sda1, install /boot on sda2, swap gets sda3 and sda4 gets / on LVM, 32 bit PAE kernel (so I can drink some wine) another LVM root with 64 bit linux then add grub2 and 3 simple entries to grub.cfg and I am done. This works for me because I don't have any hard drives larger than 2TB. I would like to move to gpt partitions but I don't see the merit for all the trouble to configure it. Things in the computer realm are not simple any more too much schist has moved into IT. It was much simpler in 1996 and look at where most projects are now. I don't call that progress, just change for the sake of change. Look at you folks trying to get a standard version of LFS scratch out... before you can finalize a release many more packages have changed. Not to even consider get BLFS-7.3 version "finished". The question then becomeis why, do the new packages actually fix something or just change things ( break things) and add several more pounds of dependencies for little or no benefit? I think debian is on to something. There is no way I can finish my desktop system....I am now just getting LFS-7.3 finished and when I get to BLFS there are more packages in LFS will have changed. I thing is... is it actually good or just change by a bunch of younger developers who don't even try to understand how Unix came to be? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
