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 Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:55 pm Post subject: [Solved] Grub Bootloader Not Seen During Boot |
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On a new Dell Precision 5810 after installing Gentoo I receiving the following message when attempting to boot. This comes up before any grub menu: "Selected boot device failed. Press any key to reboot the system."
I installed using BIOS (ie. not EFI) with a GPT partition scheme. The Dell BIOS is set to "LEGACY" with secure boot "OFF". Per Gentoo Handbood install instructions I set up the following partition table:
| Code: | Model: ATA ST1000DM003-1ER1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 4194kB 3146kB grub bios_grub
2 4194kB 138MB 134MB ext2 boot
3 138MB 33.7GB 33.6GB linux-swap(v1) swap
4 33.7GB 139GB 105GB ext4 rootfs
5 139GB 1000GB 862GB ext4 data1 |
For grub in /etc/portage/make.conf I have
GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc"
Any idea why grub is not loading on the new Dell? If providing more information would help, please ask.
(I am thinking of trying again again using MBR instead of GPT)
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jagdpanther
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks to the following paragraph in the Gentoo Handbook I solved the issue:
| Quote: | | Some buggy BIOSes or EFIs configured to boot in BIOS/CSM/legacy mode might also have problems with booting from GPT labeled disks. If that is the case, it might be possible to work around the problem by adding the boot/active flag on the protective MBR partition which has to be done through fdisk with the -t dos option to force it to read the partition table using the MBR format. |
So I guess this means I really have a GPT partition table but the Dell now thinks it is in MBR format and that works. |
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