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From: 宋文武 <iyzsong@member.fsf.org>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Mention the need of a BIOS boot partition when using GPT.
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 20:25:09 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170122122509.21880-1-iyzsong@member.fsf.org> (raw)

* doc/guix.text (Preparing for Installation)[Disk Partitioning]:
Mention the need of a BIOS boot partition when using GPT with the defualt
GRUB.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 1f0bd7568..ab3b7211f 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -6962,6 +6962,11 @@ the partition layout you want:
 cfdisk
 @end example
 
+If your disk uses the GUID Partition Table (GPT) format and you plan to
+install BIOS-based GRUB (which is the default), make sure a BIOS Boot
+Partition is available (@pxref{BIOS installation,,, grub, GNU GRUB
+manual}).
+
 Once you are done partitioning the target hard disk drive, you have to
 create a file system on the relevant partition(s)@footnote{Currently
 GuixSD only supports ext4 and btrfs file systems.  In particular, code
-- 
2.11.0

             reply	other threads:[~2017-01-22 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-22 12:25 宋文武 [this message]
2017-01-23 14:04 ` [PATCH] doc: Mention the need of a BIOS boot partition when using GPT Ludovic Courtès

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