[arch-general] New Installation

[Chester Wisniewski]

It mentions it exactly where I linked to it. Very top of the GRUB wiki. 
It's been there a while...

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#GUID_Partition_Table_.28GPT.29_specific_instructions


On 02/16/14 13:42, Toyam Cox wrote:
> 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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