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AndyWM

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Registered: 2015-06-10

Posts: 20

[ Solved ] Issue with Partitioning (setting the boot flag)

I've tried to install Arch a few times. I always seem to run into this issue which affects me later on.

fdisk (fdisk /dev/sda) doesn't provide me with the ability to set the boot flag on any of the partitions. Therefore I have issues when I get to the bootloader bit. (intend to use grub)

When I use cfdisk (cfdisk /dev/sda), while its help does say pressing 'b' will toggle the flag, in all images I've seen of what cfdisk should look like there has been a column marked 'Flags'  - that isn't present for me. So, I have no way of knowing if it actually gets set, though I doubt it does.

Partition Table is GPT.
Though,
fdisk -l gives
Disk /dev/sda ~465.8 GiB
Disk /dev/loop0 ~278.2 MiB //Not entirely sure what loop0 and loop1 are...
Disk /dev/loop1 ~32 GiB
Disk /dev/mapper... //the live image.
I'm probably just making a simple mistake - though I have no idea what. Help?

(Ruling out other errors, using latest dual architecture image, (using 86_64 UEFI) on this system; Asus X99 Pro, Core  i7 5820k, 16GB RAM, ~500GB SSD, generic video card).

Last edited by AndyWM (2015-06-10 17:21:20)

circleface

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Registered: 2012-05-26

Posts: 639

Re: [ Solved ] Issue with Partitioning (setting the boot flag)

If the partition table is GPT then you should be using gdisk instead of fdisk.

AndyWM

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Registered: 2015-06-10

Posts: 20

Re: [ Solved ] Issue with Partitioning (setting the boot flag)

It's okay - I just decided to follow the beginner's guide again. It recommend the use of parted for GPT  when using UEFI. So I just did that,  I also went for gummiboot as the bootloader. Never used it before, but it seems to do the job...

Did forget to create a user though, so I'll have to log in as root and do that.

Anyway, I'll mark this as solved.