On 21/2/18 5:02 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 02/20/2018 01:27 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 20/2/18 7:39 pm, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 02/12/2018 01:32 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
Wouldn't grub2-install be used to install the boot sectors to the
/boot partition? This question is coming from the days when I
formatted an entire hard disk as GPT and tried to install an older
Fedora system on it and had the install fail with the message that
Fedora could not be booted from a GPT environment.
There are no boot sectors with EFI. The necessary files that go in
the EFI partition at /boot/efi are in the grub2-efi-x64 and shim-x64
packages.
This question was not so much aimed at efi, but rather is it still
the case that /boot cannot be placed in a GPT partition?
I don't understand the question. There are no boot sectors in the
/boot partition. The boot sector is the MBR on a non-GPT drive. Linux
understands GPT partitions just as well as the old style, so if you
really want to, you can put /boot on its own GPT partition. On an EFI
system, the kernel and initramfs are still in /boot which is not part
of the EFI boot partition.
My question around the time I was installing, I think F26 from scratch
the first time on my 2 TB hard disk that now has both Fedora and Ubuntu
on it. As a trial I made the entire hard disk GPT. I then ran the
install process for Fedora from a live disk, I can't remember exactly
where in the install process this happened, but the install aborted with
the message that Fedora cannot be booted from a GPT disk. Not
understanding the message I did searches for the message on the net and
all the hits I found said the same thing, that Fedora cannot be booted
from GPT.
Hence I'm asking with the current Fedora version is it still the case
that Fedora cannot be booted from GPT?
regards,
Steve
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