On 02-03-19 23:02, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 at 16:06:51 -0500 > Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > >> Currently booting from a 750G BIOS-partitioned disk. >> Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT >> partitioned. >> >> With grub-install I get errors: >> >> april:/farhome/hendrik# grub-install /dev/sda >> Installing for i386-pc platform. >> grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot >> Partition; embedding won't be possible. grub-install: error: >> embedding is not possible, but this is required for RAID and LVM >> install. april:/farhome/hendrik# >> >> Evidently there is some kind of incompatibility here. >> >> What is going on? What can I to do other than continuing to boot >> from small BIOS disks? > See if this helps you: > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/671809/grub-install-this-gpt-partition-label-contains-no-bios-boot-partition > > In short: you need to have a "BIOS boot partition" of any size to > make grub-install happy. > > > Alessandro > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
And according to https://superuser.com/questions/1337344/is-it-possible-to-boot-linux-from-a-gpt-disk-on-a-bios-system it should be the first and a 1M+ partition with BIOS boot partition type grtz. Nick
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