Re: [arch-general] New Installation

2014-02-16 Thread Simon Hanna
On 02/16/14 13:42, Toyam Cox wrote: > >> Note to the powers that be: This was not mentioned in the official wiki >> when I was formatting. At least not that I saw. >> > You should say what wiki page you used, it's definitely mentioned in the beginners guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg

Re: [arch-general] New Installation

2014-02-16 Thread Chester Wisniewski
It mentions it exactly where I linked to it. Very top of the GRUB wiki. It's been there a while... https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#GUID_Partition_Table_.28GPT.29_specific_instructions On 02/16/14 13:42, Toyam Cox wrote: Note to the powers that be: This was not mentioned in the offic

Re: [arch-general] New Installation

2014-02-16 Thread Toyam Cox
Note to the powers that be: This was not mentioned in the official wiki when I was formatting. At least not that I saw. On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Chester Wisniewski wrote: > It is unrelated to filesystem partitions. It is just a special area for > GRUB to store things. It doesnt have a m

Re: [arch-general] New Installation

2014-02-16 Thread Chester Wisniewski
It is unrelated to filesystem partitions. It is just a special area for GRUB to store things. It doesnt have a mountpoint. Did you create that in addition to your /, /boot and swap? Chester On 02/16/14 13:23, Toyam Cox wrote: I already created everything else, including a /boot right there...

Re: [arch-general] New Installation

2014-02-16 Thread Toyam Cox
I already created everything else, including a /boot right there. On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Chester Wisniewski wrote: > Hi Toyam, > > You need to create a special partition to install GRUB2 on GPT without > UEFI. See the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/ > index.php/GRUB#GUID_Partiti

Re: [arch-general] New Installation

2014-02-16 Thread Chester Wisniewski
Hi Toyam, You need to create a special partition to install GRUB2 on GPT without UEFI. See the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#GUID_Partition_Table_.28GPT.29_specific_instructions Create a 1 MB partition, mark it type ef02 (in gdisk) and do not format it. When you run grub-in

[arch-general] New Installation

2014-02-16 Thread Toyam Cox
Hey folks, I mostly use Gentoo but I'm installing Arch on my laptop, so hello! I'm installing GRUB, an I'm getting an error: grub-install: waring: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible. Then Grub refuses to go ahead with blocklists. Any thoughts? I