From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: 36262@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36262: cannot install bootloader to root partition
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:22:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9x3yyyh.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9x3wqdd.fsf@nckx> (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice's message of "Tue, 18 Jun 2019 04:59:10 +0200")
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:
> Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> FWIW, I used this partition layout for years, including on Guix
>> systems,
>> and it worked fine.
>
> Impossible, sorry.
In fact, it _is_ possible, if you use an MBR partition table. I assumed
that znavko was using MBR, but having now finally looked at the provided
screen image, I see now that they're using GPT. I agree that in this
case, a BIOS boot partition is required. I should have looked more
closely before responding, sorry.
Best,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-18 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-17 11:25 bug#36262: cannot install bootloader to root partition znavko
2019-06-17 14:53 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-06-17 17:09 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-06-17 17:19 ` znavko
2019-06-17 17:08 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-06-17 22:59 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-06-18 2:59 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-06-18 10:22 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2019-06-17 17:11 ` znavko
2019-06-18 2:33 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-06-18 8:01 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
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