Re: Problem when installing stretch with btrfs
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 04:25:21PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 05:19:14PM +0200, Pierre Couderc wrote:
>>On 09/20/2017 04:38 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, that's not your problem. My best guess is that you've done
>>> an installation booted in BIOS mode, not UEFI mode. That's why you've
>>> got grub-pc installed rather than grub-efi-amd64. Do you actually care
>>> about booting via UEFI, or are you just looking for a bootable system?
>>> If the latter, simply reformat your ESP (/dev/sdb1) to be a normal
>>> ext2 or ext3 partition and use that as /boot. You could even do a RAID
>>> /boot using sdb1 and sdc1 together...
>>>
>>I am sure that my "bios" is UEFI.
>>But I have done as you say, in case it exists an hypothetical "BIOS mode" in
>>UEFI :
>>
>>root@nous:~# grub-install /dev/sdb1
>>Installing for i386-pc platform.
>>grub-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding.
>>grub-install: error: filesystem `btrfs' doesn't support blocklists.
>>
>>And it fails (as usual with a initramfs prompt)...
>
>Sorry, should have been clearer. Try "grub-install /dev/sdb" to
>install to the MBR of the disk, not the partition.
In fact...
If you're going to try that configuration, you'll also want to
# apt install --reinstall grub-pc
with the new /boot mounted, to set everything up there too.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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