[arch-general] New Installation

[Toyam Cox]

Note to the powers that be: This was not mentioned in the official wiki
when I was formatting. At least not that I saw.


On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Chester Wisniewski <chetw at zuzax.com> wrote:

> It is unrelated to filesystem partitions. It is just a special area for
> GRUB to store things. It doesnt have a mountpoint. Did you create that in
> addition to your /, /boot and swap?
>
> Chester
>
>
> On 02/16/14 13:23, Toyam Cox wrote:
>
>> I already created everything else, including a /boot right there.....
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Chester Wisniewski <chetw at zuzax.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Toyam,
>>>
>>> You need to create a special partition to install GRUB2 on GPT without
>>> UEFI. See the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/
>>> index.php/GRUB#GUID_Partition_Table_.28GPT.29_specific_instructions
>>>
>>> Create a 1 MB partition, mark it type ef02 (in gdisk) and do not format
>>> it. When you run grub-install it will then copy some image files there
>>> required for GPT booting when UEFI isn't present. The wiki walks you
>>> through the details, don't worry about the 1007KB part and errors about
>>> partition alignment, just make a 1 meg partition right at the front of
>>> the
>>> disk and it will work fine.
>>>
>>> Chester
>>>
>>>
>>> On 02/16/14 13:06, Toyam Cox wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hey folks,
>>>>
>>>> I mostly use Gentoo but I'm installing Arch on my laptop, so hello!
>>>>
>>>> I'm installing GRUB, an I'm getting an error:
>>>> grub-install: waring: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot
>>>> Partition; embedding won't be possible.
>>>> Then Grub refuses to go ahead with blocklists.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts? It isn't a UEFI computer... it's a netbook.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>


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- Toyam