The manual (3.4) says, for GPT and the BIOS boot partition "With partitioning programs that require setting the GUID directly, it should be ‘21686148-6449-6e6f-744e656564454649’.
Caution: Be very careful which partition you select! When GRUB finds a BIOS Boot Partition during installation, it will automatically overwrite part of it. " Does this mean that the installer will overwrite the BIOS Boot partition on every disk that has one (since they all have the same GUID), or only on the target disk? Giving the same GUID to different partitions seems like a recipe for trouble. Or is the GUID some type flag in GPT and not the partition UUID? What happens with a GPT disk that does not have a BIOS boot partition? I'm also a little confused about the role of the BIOS boot partition vs /boot for Linux systems. I thought the installer wrote itself into /boot. Is it that some of the key components also go in BIOS boot so that grub knows enough to be able to read /boot? Thanks. Ross Boylan cc's appreciated. _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
