On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 11:50:02AM -0400, fsmithred wrote:
> On 06/10/2017 08:22 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >
> > I have a old laptop with an EFI partition, but it has the old-style
> > MBR partitioning structure. The EFI partition was there when it was
> > new, together with a Windows XP
On 06/10/2017 08:22 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> I have a old laptop with an EFI partition, but it has the old-style
> MBR partitioning structure. The EFI partition was there when it was
> new, together with a Windows XP system (which is no longer there).
>
> As far as I've been able to tell,
On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 11:36:04PM -0400, fsmithred wrote:
> On 06/08/2017 09:07 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >
> > I have a machine with both old-style MBR (fdisk) partitioned and
> > gpt-style (needs gdisk) partitioned disks. It boots using grub or
> > lilo.
> >
>
> >
> > How would booting
On 06/08/2017 09:07 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> I have a machine with both old-style MBR (fdisk) partitioned and
> gpt-style (needs gdisk) partitioned disks. It boots using grub or
> lilo.
>
>
> How would booting from the GPT drives work? It's an old machine whose
> BIOS looks for an MBR.
On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 03:27:30PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> The problem was more worked around than resolved.
>
> After having no grub modules with an installation on a new disk, whether
> DVD or netinst ISO, I knew the problem wasn't with the disk. I installed
> Devuan Jessie more or less
