topic title: New installation - no boot partition
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I've just carried out a test installation of antiX and noticed that the installer doesn't appear to allow a separate boot partition. This is not a major problem, but I would like to know if this is a bug, a feature or my incompetence. Anyone?
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anticapitalista
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#2
incompetence - nice and classy!
Do you plan to annoy the devs with all your posts, or just your first one?
Do you plan to annoy the devs with all your posts, or just your first one?
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#3
dude he said"his incompetence"...
um...that would be a feature i guess. Our installer is pretty simple.
anticapitalista wrote:incompetence - nice and classy!
Do you plan to annoy the devs with all your posts, or just your first one?
dude he said"his incompetence"...
um...that would be a feature i guess. Our installer is pretty simple.
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anticapitalista
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#4
Whoops so he did. Apologies to the poster. Time for me to rest I guess.
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#5
Well, during the install procedure it asks if you wanna install grub to mbr or root file system on root partition.
Sooooo. To make it difficult. Make a /boot partition during the install procedure using gparted during the live run.
When grub asks where do you want it. Root or MBR. Pick root.
Then go into /boot/grub again after rebooting into a live session after a install.
Cut and copy /boot folder into /boot partition.
Make sure /boot partition is flagged as boot using gparted.
Do a sudo update-grub. See if things are seen I guess. Might work. Might not. I never done this.
I don't know either if some kind of bootloader needs to be on the mbr to chainload boot files from /boot partition either.
I aint to bright on this.
Sooooo. To make it difficult. Make a /boot partition during the install procedure using gparted during the live run.
When grub asks where do you want it. Root or MBR. Pick root.
Then go into /boot/grub again after rebooting into a live session after a install.
Cut and copy /boot folder into /boot partition.
Make sure /boot partition is flagged as boot using gparted.
Do a sudo update-grub. See if things are seen I guess. Might work. Might not. I never done this.
I don't know either if some kind of bootloader needs to be on the mbr to chainload boot files from /boot partition either.
I aint to bright on this.
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#6
Do like we do for EUFI
Make a 100MB Fat32 partition Make it bootable, install to SDA2 and have Grub install to mbr.
Works for me.
Make a 100MB Fat32 partition Make it bootable, install to SDA2 and have Grub install to mbr.
Works for me.