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Is the hammer a solution?

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Re: Is the hammer a solution?

#21 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

edbarx wrote:I found EFI booting is much simpler than legacy boot.
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edbarx wrote:I couldn't make legacy boot work on a GPT formatted disk.
The non-UEFI version of GRUB needs a special BIOS boot partition to hold the bootloader because there is no space for it on a GUID partition table.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS_boot_partition

I like to use gdisk to generate the BIOS boot partition: press "n" to add a new partition and accept the default start and end sectors (these will be 34 & 2047, respectively, in a full disk) then select partition type ef02 and use "w" to write the changes to the disk — *do not* format the new partition.

Once this is done, the non-UEFI version of GRUB can be installed and used.

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/grub-pc

However, some motherboards will not boot with this method at all and it is recommend to use a traditional "MBR-style" (msdos) partition table instead on disks to be used in a non-UEFI system.

@OP: disable Secure Boot.
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Re: Is the hammer a solution?

#22 Post by acewiza »

stevepusser wrote:Many would say it's doing great at what it's really intended to do--make it harder to install anything but Windows.
Ah yes - the root of the problem. We spend so much time discussing and arguing over the symptoms, when the root cause is right there in front of us all along. 8)
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Re: Is the hammer a solution?

#23 Post by edbarx »

However, some motherboards will not boot with this method at all and it is recommend to use a traditional "MBR-style" (msdos) partition table instead on disks to be used in a non-UEFI system.
It is very probable I failed to use legacy boot for this reason. I remember I did create a 1MB empty partition for non-UEFI GRUB to install the first boot stage. I wanted a GPT formatted disk at all costs having in the not so remote past lost at least an installation in an extended partition. An GPT formatted disk makes such an event a little harder to happen again.
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