That's where I think the problem lies Mick. My system is uefi. Too bad that gen too officially doesn't support it. I just wish gentoo developers take a closer look at the issue and come out with uefi capable minimal installation CD and clear uefi installation documentation
Mick <[email protected]> wrote: >On Saturday 20 Dec 2014 05:28:49 Tomas Mozes wrote: >> On 2014-12-20 00:57, German wrote: >> > Just a follow up to my original question. I've installed grub on >> > /dev/SDA literally following the quide. And I just realized why I made >> > /dev/sda1 partition obviously designed for grub? Should I have been >> > install grub into /dev/sda1? I also have uefi system and I think it >> > matters. Thanks everyone for clarifications >> > >> > German <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Is anyone can advice on where to dig. It seems that grub isn't >> >> installed because I can't access it pressing ESC key and I return to >> >> bios. During installation there were no errors reported, the system >> >> installed grub just fine. Also grub.cfg found all my kernels and >> >> ramdisks? Thanks for any suggestion. What would you do? >> >> If you have your /dev/sda only for Gentoo, you would install grub into >> /dev/sda and have /dev/sda1 for /boot, for example: >> /dev/sda1: /boot >> /dev/sda2: / >> >> The bios will load grub from mbr of /dev/sda and since you specify that >> grub can find it's stuff on /dev/sda1 (root), it can continue to find >> the kernel, etc.. Once found, it can load the kernel and mount root, >> because it's the kernel parameter. >> >> For example: >> root(hd0,0) >> setup (hd0) >> >> Check out >> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/legacy/grub.html#Installing-GRUB-na >> tively >> >> Or for grub2: >> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Bootloader >> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB >> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start >> >> You can also have your /boot and / on the same partition. > >All of this is good advice, but ONLY IF the MoBo has been configured to boot >in CMS/Legacy_BIOS mode. Otherwise, UEFI will bail out at boot time because >it does neither read, nor use the MBR bootloader. > >Depending on the boot options provided by the motherboard, the hard drive can >be configured to boot in legacy-BIOS using an MBR, in UEFI mode using an ESP >partition, or both depending on the BIOS selection at boot time. > >-- >Regards, >Mick
