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Peikko

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Registered: 2011-11-18

Posts: 29

Warning on Grub2 installation: GPT

Hello

I just got a new notebook (T61) and am trying to install Arch on it. Before that I had a UEFI Notebook and after some tries I was able to install it.
But now I don't know what to do.
As the Topic title says I can't install Grub, it is giving me warnings and ends with a error.

I understand that I have to do this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GR … structions

But I don't quiet understand how. which commands etc.

Can I do this with gparted too?

If this partition is created.. do I need to mount it to /boot?

Do I have to tell the grub-command that it should use this partition?

or does it do everything by him selb I all I have to do is create the partition and set the bios flag?

thank you

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: Warning on Grub2 installation: GPT

Are you asking about the bios boot partition?  Of so, all you need to do is create a 1-2MB partition with partition type EF02 in gdisk.  You don't have to create a filesystem or anything. Just create the partition with the correct type code.  I am not sure how to use gparted to do this.  You may well have to do this from the command line, though I am not sure.

If you have already laid out your partitions and don't have space anymore, and don't want to go throught the process of shrinking filesystems and partitions to allow this small partition, you can try syslinux.  I have become really fond of it recently, as it is much much simpler.  The config file is edited by hand, and it is suepr straight forward.

Peikko

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Registered: 2011-11-18

Posts: 29

Re: Warning on Grub2 installation: GPT

Thank you. So only create the partition and that's it? no mounting? not telling grub to use it? it will do everything automatically?

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

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Re: Warning on Grub2 installation: GPT

Yeah, it actually just looks for a partition with that type code.  So there is no need to direct grub anywhere as long as it exists.

BTW, you can't mount a partition w/o a filesystem.

Last edited by WonderWoofy (2012-12-14 17:33:43)

Peikko

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Registered: 2011-11-18

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Re: Warning on Grub2 installation: GPT

great. thanks alot. I'll try right now.

Mr.Elendig

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Re: Warning on Grub2 installation: GPT

In the future please post the actual warning/error instead of just saying "As the Topic title says I can't install Grub, it is giving me warnings and ends with a error." It is really hard to help if you don't actually tell us *what* is wrong.

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WonderWoofy

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Re: Warning on Grub2 installation: GPT

^^That, and also if this solved your problem, please keep our forums semi-orderly, and mark your thread as solved.  You may do this by editing the first post and prepending [Solved] to the title.