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On Thu, 2016-08-04 at 22:21 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > Is it a BIOS boot, or are you using the UEFI firmware for booting? > Either way, you might need a small boot partition (not /boot) at the > beginning of the disk. /boot/efi formatted FAT16, circa 150 MB -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. England's place is in the European Union.

Hi Giuseppe... ! Thanks for the hint. ill try it. So from the docs, I'm seeing this: "As of Fedora 16 there must be a biosboot partition for the bootloader to be installed successfully onto a disk that contains a GPT/GUID partition table, which includes disks initialized by anaconda. This partition may be created with the kickstart option part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1. However, in the case that a disk has an exi...

...ing like this using sda and sdb. Create /boot as 512 MB XFS raid1 array. Create SWAP as 32 GB SWAP raid1 array. Create / on 3.xxx TB XFS raid1 array. I then get error. "Your BIOS-based system needs a special partition to boot from a GPT disk label. To countinue, please create a 1MiB 'biosboot' type partition." I cannot seem to create the biosboot partition so it is mirrored to both drives for redundancy. Any ideas how to do this? I want everything mirrored to both drives.

Hi Giuseppe and thanks for the response............ Heres some more info: Here is my kickstart... maybe the "--bootloader" argument is wrong in some way? # Put this in pastebin or some other public url # Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda. #version=DEVEL install cdrom lang en_US.UTF-8 keyboard us network --onboot yes --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6 timezone

...;> >> Create SWAP as 32 GB SWAP raid1 array. >> >> Create / on 3.xxx TB XFS raid1 array. >> >> I then get error. >> >> "Your BIOS-based system needs a special partition to boot from a GPT >> disk label. To countinue, please create a 1MiB 'biosboot' type >> partition." >> >> I cannot seem to create the biosboot partition so it is mirrored to >> both drives for redundancy. Any ideas how to do this? I want >> everything mirrored to both drives. > > Yeah, you need to create the 1M partition, prefera...

On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, Jonathan Billings wrote: > Even if you're using BIOS boot, if you've got a GPT-formatted disk, > you'll need a 'biosboot' partition as well. > > part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 That doesn't sound right. Pure EFI boot, you can just have: part /boot/efi --fstype="efi" Plus whatever volumes (PVs etc.) that you want. Other question mark I'd have over the partitioning is that it...

Hello, I am trying to set a computer running FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE so that it can boot using a serial console. To this effect I am trying to compile new boot blocks, but I get this error: casa# cd /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot && make cc -O2 -malign-functions=0 -malign-jumps=0 -malign-loops=0 -DBOOTWAIT=5000 -DTIMEOUT= -DBOOTSEG=0x1000 -DBOOTSTACK=0xFFF0 -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -DCOMCONSOLE...

Hi all, I used a kickstart script to setup a new machine of mine with RAID 1 (I couldn't get anaconda to create matching partition schemes). So I've now got /dev/sdg1 and /dev/sdh1 as 'bios_grub' (/dev/sd{a-f} are a separate array). 0 root at an-nas02:~# parted /dev/sdg print free Model: ATA ST3000NC000 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdg: 3001GB Sector size (logical/physical):

...;/usr/bin/pygrub", line 686, in ? fs = fsimage.open(file, get_fs_offset(file)) IOError: [Errno 95] Operation not supported No handlers could be found for logger "xend" Error: Boot loader didn't return any data! In my kickstart, I had to create a partition for F16 as: part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 I didn't readily find the error when googling... Has anyone been able to run F16 as a PV guest? And if so, what did you do to make it happen????? Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!! Scot P. Floess RHCT (Certificate Number 605010084735240) Chief Architect FlossW...

.../boot as 512 MB XFS raid1 array. > > Create SWAP as 32 GB SWAP raid1 array. > > Create / on 3.xxx TB XFS raid1 array. > > I then get error. > > "Your BIOS-based system needs a special partition to boot from a GPT > disk label. To countinue, please create a 1MiB 'biosboot' type > partition." > > I cannot seem to create the biosboot partition so it is mirrored to > both drives for redundancy. Any ideas how to do this? I want > everything mirrored to both drives. Yeah, you need to create the 1M partition, preferably the first, and its type,...

...using the UEFI firmware for booting? > > Either way, you might need a small boot partition (not /boot) at the > > beginning of the disk. > > /boot/efi formatted FAT16, circa 150 MB Even if you're using BIOS boot, if you've got a GPT-formatted disk, you'll need a 'biosboot' partition as well. part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 (It's not necessary if you're using MBR, but it isn't clear if that's the case here.) -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

....168.122.100 --netmask=255.255.255.0 --gateway=192.168.122.1 --nameserver=192.168.122.1 > bootloader --location=mbr --timeout=5 --append="rhgb quiet" > .... > %end in the kickstart file generated by libosinfo for Fedora 20 (osinfo-install-script fedora20), I see this line: part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1 Could you try adding it to your kickstart file just after "clearpart"? Giuseppe

...there. I set the "New mount points will use the following partitioning scheme" to "Standard Partition" and hit "+". I get a popup titled "ADD A NEW MOUNT POINT" or where I have to select a "Mount Point" of /, /boot, /home, /var, swap, or biosboot. Do I have to select and define all the above all or is there a subset that will allow me to install C7? What would be reasonable sizes for the partition? After the install - how do I configure grub to Dual boot? Finally, is there a way to automate the process? I think with the W7 and C6 I was a...

On 1/20/2024 1:29 AM, Ralph Ronnquist via Syslinux wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 12:21:37AM +0100, marki via Syslinux wrote: >> Hello, >> >> So I'm running syslinux.efi >> Which loads menu.c32 >> Which is supposed to start ESXi's bootx64.efi/mboot.efi >> >> But that gives >> >> """ >> Loading mboot.efi... ok

...ezone --utc Europe/Berlin services --disabled gpm,sendmail,cups,pcmcia,isdn,rawdevices,hpoj,bluetooth,openibd,avahi-daemon,avahi-dnsconfd,hidd,hplip,pcscd bootloader --location=mbr --append="nofb quiet splash=quiet" zerombr clearpart --initlabel --all ignoredisk --only-use=sda part biosboot --size 1 --fstype=biosboot --asprimary part / --fstype=xfs --size=20480 --asprimary --ondisk=sda part swap --size=131072 --ondisk=sda part /var/log --fstype=xfs --size=10240 --ondisk=sda part /home --fstype=xfs --size=10240 --grow --ondisk=sda text reboot %packages yum dhclient ntp wget @Core...

We got some reports from people unable to reboot their nodes after updating to 7.6.1810, and basically to newer shim (v15). It seems to affect only nodes in UEFI mode, but without SecureBoot. We wrote that in the ReleaseNotes, including a link to the bug report : https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=15522 We have now a workaround in that bug report, and also a new interim build (not signed by

Hello Everyone, I am a newbie. When I try to install GRUB2 on centos 5.2 system, I get following error. centos5: grub-install /dev/sda //sbin/grub-setup: warn: This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible!. //sbin/grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE

Hi, I'm currently teaching Linux system administration to a class at the local "chambre de commerce". The course is based mainly on a minimal CentOS 7 installation. Usually my preferred tool for handling manual GPT partitioning is gdisk, which is not installed on a minimal install. I just gave the good old fdisk a spin, which enables GPT partition table creation with the

hi everyone, is there a way to add custom mount points at installation point? And if there is would you say /usr should/could go onto a separate partition? many thanks, L.

...let you install itself into it, and it will even offer to put its boot loader on a CentOS partition instead of overwriting the boot drive?s boot sector. The CentOS 7 installer does not support installing GRUB to a partition. It can be installed, or not. If installed it goes in the MBR gap, or the BIOSboot partition, or EFI System partition. And because there's no ntfsprogs, grub2-mkconfig won't find Windows and won't create a menu entry for it. > > That counts as ?supports dual boot? in my book. Supporting dual boot means ability to boot both installed OS's upon completion...