On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:36:45 +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > 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.
Yeah - summary of my problem to date. Presumably enabling GPT with grub-install will allow me to use the grub rescue prompt to get the copy of Ubuntu on the GPT disc booted up. All I need now is the correct set of grub rescue commands to achieve this. Cheers Dave R _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
