On Tuesday, March 19, 2013 07:16:38 PM andrew bezella wrote: > On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 10:59 -0700, Bob Apodaca wrote: >> disk_config disk1 disklabel:gpt bootable:1 fstabkey:uuid > unless this has changed in fai4, you would want to use > "disklabel:gpt-bios" instead of "gpt." the necessary bios_grub > partition should then be created automatically.
Yes this works. (But I don't like how it works.) setup-storage will create a new partition and mark it and the location of this 'boot'-partition is at the beginning of the disk, but the partition index is the next after the last defined partition, e.g.: disk_config disk1 disklabel:gpt-bios primary / 200M ext3 rw,errors=panic primary - 400M swap - will result in 1) sda3 - biosboot 2) sda1 - / 3) sda2 - swap Yes this is mostly a cosmetical issue. I can understand why it has been done this way. Still don't like 'out of order' partitioning. There's a workaround to achieve 'ordered' partitions. disk_config disk1 disklabel:gpt primary - 1M - - primary / 200M ext3 rw,errors=panic primary - 400M swap - However you _must_ set the required flag manually after the partitioning has been done and before grub is being installed. @Bob: The reason why 'primary - 8 bios_grub' does not work is that setup-storage only provides 'filesystem creation'- and 'filesystem mount'-options. But this is not a filesystem issue. The required flag belongs to the partition layer. bye thomas