On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 at 16:06:51 -0500 Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> Currently booting from a 750G BIOS-partitioned disk. > Trying to enable booting from the 4.7T drive, which is GPT > partitioned. > > With grub-install I get errors: > > april:/farhome/hendrik# grub-install /dev/sda > Installing for i386-pc platform. > grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot > Partition; embedding won't be possible. grub-install: error: > embedding is not possible, but this is required for RAID and LVM > install. april:/farhome/hendrik# > > Evidently there is some kind of incompatibility here. > > What is going on? What can I to do other than continuing to boot > from small BIOS disks? See if this helps you: https://askubuntu.com/questions/671809/grub-install-this-gpt-partition-label-contains-no-bios-boot-partition In short: you need to have a "BIOS boot partition" of any size to make grub-install happy. Alessandro _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
