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good evening
i have an old laptop 2008 acer aspire 7720.
it ran crunchbang 11 fine but i had it on a ms dos partition.
i re partitioned the hdd gpt so i could install other iso's.
am i going to have to go back to ms dos partitioned ?
i went back in the install with the live iso .
the directory /boot/grub
does not contain i386-pc dir
but it is in the directory /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc
so i copied /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc to /boot/grub
Code:
sudo grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda
sudo: grub-install: command not found
What distro are you currently using? It may be grub2-install or you may to actually need to be root to run grub-install. A side note, to install grub in legacy mode on a gpt drive a 1mb partition flagged bios-grub is needed.
Last edited by colorpurple21859; 10-04-2023 at 08:48 PM.
good evening
i have an old laptop 2008 acer aspire 7720.
it ran crunchbang 11 fine but i had it on a ms dos partition.
i re partitioned the hdd gpt so i could install other iso's.
am i going to have to go back to ms dos partitioned ?
No, you will need to install a BIOS Boot Partition.
# gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.9.1
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB
Model: WDC WD10EZEX-22M
Sector size (logical/physical): 512/4096 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): E307DE8A-10A1-4215-9A8C-1F81F2F84C8A
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 3437 sectors (1.7 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 17045504 211453951 92.7 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem
2 2048 17043455 8.1 GiB 8200
3 211453952 1953523711 830.7 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem
4 17043456 17045503 1024.0 KiB EF02
If you are lucky you will have a free space to add one, cgdisk is useful in this case. My setup again with cgdisk.
Code:
# cgdisk /dev/sda
cgdisk 1.0.9.1
Disk Drive: /dev/sda
Size: 1953525168, 931.5 GiB
Part. # Size Partition Type Partition Name
----------------------------------------------------------------
> 1007.0 KiB free space
2 8.1 GiB Linux swap
4 1024.0 KiB BIOS boot partition
1 92.7 GiB Linux filesystem Linux filesystem
3 830.7 GiB Linux filesystem Linux filesystem
711.5 KiB free space
[ Align ] [ Backup ] [ Help ] [ Load ] [ New ] [ Quit ] [ Verify ]
[ Write ]
Create new partition from free space
Last edited by chrisretusn; 10-04-2023 at 09:53 PM.
at this point i will reinstall it if i need too.
crunchbang++12 witch should be the debain 12 iso with open box configured.
i will work on it tomorrow and post back.
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