From: Adam Van Ymeren <adam@vany.ca>
To: cinder88@hushmail.com
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bootloader trouble during installation
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 11:54:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tw2py30f.fsf@vany.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170706133936.E133DA0155@smtp.hushmail.com> (cinder's message of "Thu, 06 Jul 2017 09:39:36 -0400")
cinder88@hushmail.com writes:
> Hello again, all. I've been trying to install GuixSD for the first time with no success.
> The installation process seems to go smoothly, but my machine can't detect the
> installation. Since the installation isn't detected, I believe the problem is with the
> bootloader.
>
> For the bootloader, I am attempting to use legacy boot, not UEFI. I realize that
> fdisk below identifies /dev/sda2 as an EFI system, but this seems to automatically
> happen when I set boot to on in parted.
> fdisk listing:
> Disklabel type: gpt
If you're not using UEFI boot, try using a regular DOS/MBR partition scheme
rather than GPT. Not all BIOS's will support GPT in legacy mode.
In fdisk I believe the command is "o" to initialize a blank DOS
partition.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-06 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-06 13:39 Bootloader trouble during installation cinder88
2017-07-06 15:54 ` Adam Van Ymeren [this message]
2017-07-06 16:19 ` Chris Marusich
2017-07-06 17:35 ` Danny Milosavljevic
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