Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help

2016-07-26 Thread John Runyon
An alternate workaround that I found (I had the same issue) is to run partprobe. It'll find them and add them to /dec whether you have kernel support for GPT or not.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help

2016-07-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/22/2016 10:49:35 AM, Dmitry Bogun wrote: Look like you don't have gpt support in kernel. Many thanks Dmitry, that was the problem. Since I have a somewhat older mother board with no UEFI support, I couldn't image why I need the EFI GUID Partition support setting for my kernel. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help

2016-07-22 Thread Dmitry Bogun
Look like you don't have gpt support in kernel. Post output from command "gunzip -c /proc/config.gz | grep '_PARTITION\>'" > On Jul 22, 2016, at 11:37 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > On 07/22/2016 10:28:35 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:04:58 +0200,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help

2016-07-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/22/2016 10:28:35 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:04:58 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > I have zeroed the first 8 MB and then I used gdisk > gdisk still notes that there is a backup GPT. I opted to created a new > blank GPT. > Then I created 4 partitions. > I have used

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help

2016-07-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:04:58 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > I have zeroed the first 8 MB and then I used gdisk > gdisk still notes that there is a backup GPT. I opted to created a new > blank GPT. > Then I created 4 partitions. > I have used the w(rite) command before exiting gdisk. > Starting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help

2016-07-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Thanks to all of you who have tried to help. Unfortunately, I am still lost. I just want to run Gentoo on my system, and the new drive is just for backup, i.e. it needn't be bootable. I have zeroed the first 8 MB and then I used gdisk gdisk still notes that there is a backup GPT. I opted to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help

2016-07-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:01:29 + (UTC), James wrote: > boot, root and swap that works on both mbr(bios) and efi motherboards?> I'm not sure it can be done. BIOS needs an EF00 partition at the start. EFI calls for an EF00 partition, which is recommended at the start but I don't think it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help

2016-07-21 Thread covici
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:11:00 + (UTC), James wrote: > > > First determine if the motherboards is a Bios or EFI variety. > > > > Then, decide which bootloader you are going to use:: grub(legacy) grub2, > > lilo, gummi, EFI, etc etc? Last, how many

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help

2016-07-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:11:00 + (UTC), James wrote: > First determine if the motherboards is a Bios or EFI variety. > > Then, decide which bootloader you are going to use:: grub(legacy) grub2, > lilo, gummi, EFI, etc etc? Last, how many different distros will you > ultimately be booting off