Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 11:15:03PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > hendrik: > > Currently booting from a 750G BIOS-partitioned disk. > > Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT partitioned. > > > > With grub-install I get errors: > > > > april:/farhome/hendrik# grub-install

Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread . fsmithred via Dng
On 3/2/19, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I will guess that boot partition has to be on the same disk as the MBR. > > And this boot partition that has to be at the "start", I suspect that isn't > the partition that remains mounted as /boot after the Linux system is up and > running. > > -- hendrik I

Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 11:04:54PM +0100, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > On 02-03-19 23:02, Alessandro Selli wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 at 16:06:51 -0500 > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > >> Currently booting from a 750G BIOS-partitioned disk. > >> Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T

Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread karl
hendrik: > Currently booting from a 750G BIOS-partitioned disk. > Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT partitioned. > > With grub-install I get errors: > > april:/farhome/hendrik# grub-install /dev/sda > Installing for i386-pc platform. > grub-install: warning: this GPT

Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread info at smallinnovations dot nl
On 02-03-19 23:02, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 at 16:06:51 -0500 > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> Currently booting from a 750G BIOS-partitioned disk. >> Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT >> partitioned. >> >> With grub-install I get errors: >> >>

Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread Alessandro Selli
On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 at 16:06:51 -0500 Hendrik Boom wrote: > Currently booting from a 750G BIOS-partitioned disk. > Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT > partitioned. > > With grub-install I get errors: > > april:/farhome/hendrik# grub-install /dev/sda > Installing for

Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 10:14:57PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > On Saturday 02 March 2019 at 22:06:51, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT partitioned. > > > Installing for i386-pc platform. > > That seems like a bizarre (and unlikely to work)

Re: [DNG] gpt boot on bios machine

2019-03-02 Thread Antony Stone
On Saturday 02 March 2019 at 22:06:51, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT partitioned. > Installing for i386-pc platform. That seems like a bizarre (and unlikely to work) combination to me. What sort of machine are you starting from which needs