From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: bug#36262: cannot install bootloader to root partition Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 18:59:45 -0400 Message-ID: <87muif24xv.fsf@netris.org> References: <5465f5ee143f556ff0c11c11cdd54cc1@disroot.org> <87zhmgw35r.fsf@nckx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42056) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hd0eZ-0003vf-DZ for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 19:03:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hd0eV-0002e9-Oi for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 19:03:05 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:58134) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hd0eU-0002cb-4t for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 19:03:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hd0eU-000882-0o for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 19:03:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87zhmgw35r.fsf@nckx> (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice's message of "Mon, 17 Jun 2019 19:08:16 +0200") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Cc: 36262@debbugs.gnu.org Hi Tobias, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > znavko@disroot.org wrote: >> bug#36262: cannot install bootloader to root partition > > Installing GRUB to your root partition isn't supported, and should > never be necessary anyway. > >> Hello! I was not able to install Guix having 2 partitions: >> /dev/sda1 ext4 Linux filesystem >> /dev/sda2 Linux Swap > > This is a strange partition layout; it's missing a =E2=80=98BIOS boot > partition=E2=80=99 and can never work without forcing GRUB to do somethin= g it > doesn't like to do. > > Did you create this layout manually? If so, why? FWIW, I used this partition layout for years, including on Guix systems, and it worked fine. Long ago, bootloaders were only able to access the first 8 GB or so of the disk, because of limitations in the old INT 13h BIOS interface. Maybe this is still an issue on some ancient machines, but I tend to use older hardware (my best laptop is ~11 years old, and that's typical for me) and I've not had this issue in recent memory. The only reason I started using a separate boot partition again is because I now encrypt my root partition. Mark