On 10/22/26 2:25 PM, [email protected] wrote:
GPT.
But the partitions itself were formatted as MBR.
I dont know how this works - maybe protective mbr?
Internet mentions for protective mbr:
A GPT disk always has a "protective MBR" placed in LBA 0 purely for
legacy tools so they don’t mistake the unreadable GPT disk for an
unformatted drive, though it does not contain actual MBR
Sounds as you have a GPT disk.
In the Bios I tried both, to boot from legacy and dual.
Then I would choose dual.
Right now I also have the problem, that the bios does not recognize my
main partition anymore: I reset the BIOS Boot Order, and now all other
drives show up (which wasnt the case before), but not the one, that
should boot.
Maybe the drive is also corrupted?
I can't get physical access though right now - only IPMI, but it also
does not let me mount virtual media because I need some kind of
supermicro licence.
... :(
The server has more than one physical drive ?
Also is it a multi-boot system ?
virtual media ?
And moreover how could you install GRUB on a not booting system ?
Regards, ~Z
Zitat von Zerro <[email protected]>:
On 10/22/26 9:16 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Hello,
I switched my boot partition, changed its label from "legacy_boot"
to "bios_grub" (grub-install wouldnt work otherwise).
I have a btrfs root, and my boot partition is ext4 (I don't know why
someone did that, I just inherited it. But it worked in the past.)
I did a grub-install /dev/nvme0n1 and a grub-mkconfig -o
/boot/grub/grub.cfg and added the parition to my fstab to mount as
/boot.
Now when I boot, it only shows "GRUB _" (with a blinking cursor
after it), and I cannot input anything.
I have a supermicro server and I am accessing the server on its
remote console.
Can anyone help me debug this? (Supermicro remote console is also
kinda shitty, tbh)
Best,
Lucienne
May I ask is that disk a MBR or GPT partitioned disk ?
The Arch GRUB Wiki page mentions different installation instructions
for GRUB GPT UEFI and GRUB MBR.
Also the BIOS should be instructed to use the right UEFI or legacy MBR ?
Regards, ~Z
