Re: [gentoo-user] What's happening with grub-install on GPT?

2014-04-16 Thread Lin Xiao
On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 03:38:27 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: So what the hell does grub-install do? How is my system able to boot into grub at all? And, most importantly, how do I boot Windows 8 from grub now? Since your computer has EFI support, you can use EFI boot for both windows and

[gentoo-user] What's happening with grub-install on GPT?

2014-04-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
As an old fart with MBR hardwired into my brain, I'm not sure I understand how booting from a GPT partitioned disk works now. So, I had to (note: had to, not wanted to) install Windows 8.1 on my machine. I had a dual boot Gentoo/Windows7 before that. So I did a backup, wiped the Windows7

Re: [gentoo-user] What's happening with grub-install on GPT?

2014-04-15 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: As an old fart with MBR hardwired into my brain, I'm not sure I understand how booting from a GPT partitioned disk works now. So, I had to (note: had to, not wanted to) install Windows 8.1 on my machine. I had a dual