from luis jure <[email protected]>:
> on 2013-07-20 at 09:51 William Kenworthy wrote:
> You have to map the drive so grub can find it:
> no, i don't think that's the problem.
> the problem is that with GPT disks you need a BIOS Boot Partition since
> they don't have a MBR. is that correct?
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Install_to_GPT_BIOS_boot_partition
> http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2012/10/the-difference-between-booting-mbr-and-gpt-with-grub/
I think to boot directly from a hard drive, you would need a BIOS Boot
Partition or EFI System Partition, depending on whether the motherboard has
legacy BIOS or UEFI. I still boot from a USB stick or System Rescue CD with
Syslinux or isolinux and the GRUB2 giant-floppy image (not intended to be
written to any actual floppy disk).
I have also made FreeBSD and NetBSD installations on GPT-partitioned USB sticks
without any GRUB, using a boot partition (FreeBSD) or installboot in the root
partition (NetBSD), not sure how to do this with Linux. But this only works
when one OS is installed on the drive, quite OK for a USB stick in most cases.
Tom
