Phillip, et al -- ...and then Phillip Susi said... % % David T-G <davidtg-robot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt
