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Subject: Re: now that i've screwed up and apparently get to start over ...
From: David T-G <davidtg-robot () justpickone ! org>
Date: 2022-10-23 1:52:15
Message-ID: 20221023015215.GS20480 () jpo
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Phillip, et al --
...and then Phillip Susi said...
%
% David T-G <davidtg-robot@justpickone.org> writes:
%
% > Then GRUB puked all over itself and I can't get the stupid thing running
...
% > /dev/sda and put /dev/sde back, and I get that GRUB can't boot from a GPT
% > disk ... except that /dev/sda has always been that!
%
% GRUB can boot from GPT just fine. Assuming you are booting in EFI mode,
% it just has to have an EFI system partition, and be registered with the
Ah, but I'm not. I only have four partitions
jpo:~ # parted /dev/sda unit MiB p free
Model: ATA SAMSUNG MZ7LN128 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 122104MiB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: pmbr_boot
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
0.02MiB 1.00MiB 0.98MiB Free Space
1 1.00MiB 33793MiB 33792MiB linux-swap(v1) jpo-swap swap
2 33793MiB 66561MiB 32768MiB xfs jposuse
3 66561MiB 99329MiB 32768MiB xfs jpoalt legacy_boot
4 99329MiB 122104MiB 22775MiB xfs jpo-ssd
(taken from an identical machine) and do not use that UEFI stuff that I
don't know. Way simple.
% EFI firmware. You can't just copy the partitions to a new drive and
% remove the old drive and expect it to boot. You will need to
% grub-install on the new drive to register it with the EFI firmware.
Heck, I'd be happy to be booting from the old drive!
Thanks again & HANW
:-D
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David T-G
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See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt
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