On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Jordan Uggla <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 3:19 PM, David WE Roberts <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Now the 3TB [when did the notation move from GB to GiB?] permanent data >> disc has turned up I need to move my partitions across from an MBR disc to >> a GPT disc but keep the booting organisation effectively the same. >> >> So I seem to be stuck in a transition between old and new disc formats, >> and old and new BIOS formats. > > The normal procedure is to just run grub-install and (if needed) > grub-mkconfig after making whatever partitioning changes you want. Is > there any reason you can't do that? >
To run grub-install you need to boot first, and to boot you need access to /boot/grub and to access /boot/grub you need part_gpt. Which is not available until you can access /boot/grub. Catch 22. _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
