On Fri, 2016-08-05 at 09:11 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 01:55:07PM +0100, Always Learning wrote:
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
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.)
Thanks for that interesting tip. My GPT disks on C6 don't have it and they boot normally.
It seems biosboot is indispensable when booting GPT partitioned disks on older hardware that lacks EFI capability.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2012-August/msg00005.html
It seems the advantage of having a biosboot partition, at the start of the disk, is the disk will successfully boot-up on EFI and on older non-EFI BIOS-only systems.
One learns something new almost every day :-)
Thank you.