On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Andrey Borzenkov <[email protected]> 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.
To change from an msdos label to a GPT label you need to be booted into an OS. If you're booted into an OS you can run grub-install. Where is the catch? -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
