Re: Have never seen this previously...........

2014-10-25 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 15:46:10 +0200 Pascal Hambourg sent: > You don't show the partition table type which was printed before the > partition list. However there are more than 4 partitions without an > extended partition, so it must be GPT. That's correct, GPT. Apologies, I just copied the wrong pa

Re: Have never seen this previously...........

2014-10-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Charlie a écrit : > > Just deleted all partitions [It was just a win8 operating system] Then > created the partition table, then installed the base system then grub, > then installed what I needed as I required it. > >> Anyway, just run parted -l and it will tell you what partition type >> it is.

Re: Have never seen this previously...........

2014-10-25 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 25 Oct 2014 11:49:34 +0200 Pascal Hambourg sent: > Charlie a écrit : > > > > Wipe it with gparted > > How ? Did you create a new partition table/disklabel (what type ?) or > just delete all previously existing partitions ? Just deleted all partitions [It was just a win8 operating system

Re: Have never seen this previously...........

2014-10-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Charlie a écrit : > > Wipe it with gparted How ? Did you create a new partition table/disklabel (what type ?) or just delete all previously existing partitions ? Anyway, just run parted -l and it will tell you what partition type it is. and set up my partitions: /root, /home, /usr, /var > etc.,

Re: Have never seen this previously...........

2014-10-24 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:44:25 +0100 Darac Marjal sent: > I'm not quite sure what your setup here is so: > * If you're booting in BIOS mode with an MBR disk, then raise a bug > against grub > * If you're booting in BIOS mode with a GPT disk, then create the BIOS > Boot Partition that grub is a

Re: Have never seen this previously...........

2014-10-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 08:15:03PM +1100, Charlie wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:20:33 +0100 Darac Marjal sent: > > > > On a GPT disk using BIOS, though, GRUB will still install Stage 1 into > > the first sector, but then there's no suitable place for it to put > > Stage 1.5. So you're expected

Re: Have never seen this previously...........

2014-10-24 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:20:33 +0100 Darac Marjal sent: > On a GPT disk using BIOS, though, GRUB will still install Stage 1 into > the first sector, but then there's no suitable place for it to put > Stage 1.5. So you're expected to create the Bios Boot Partition, into > which Grub will install Sta

Re: Have never seen this previously...........

2014-10-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:52:36PM +1100, Charlie wrote: > > From my Keyboard: > > Debian Jessie amd64 > Toshiba laptop > Upgrade of a moment ago: > > Installing for i386-pc platform. > grub-install: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot > Partition; embedding won't be po