From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?q?=E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6?= Subject: [PATCH] doc: Mention the need of a BIOS boot partition when using GPT. Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 20:25:09 +0800 Message-ID: <20170122122509.21880-1-iyzsong@member.fsf.org> Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48414) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cVHFG-0006vE-TW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 07:27:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cVHFD-0005KM-PH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 07:27:42 -0500 Received: from lb1.openmailbox.org ([5.79.108.160]:51272) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cVHFD-0005KE-IP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2017 07:27:39 -0500 List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org * 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