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| author | 宋文武 <iyzsong@member.fsf.org> | 2017-01-22 20:17:35 +0800 |
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| committer | 宋文武 <iyzsong@member.fsf.org> | 2017-01-23 20:25:18 +0800 |
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doc: Mention the need of a BIOS boot partition when using GPT.
* doc/guix.text (Preparing for Installation)[Disk Partitioning]:
Mention the need of a BIOS boot partition when using GPT with the defualt
GRUB.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 4dc65ee45d..7093bf7461 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -6963,6 +6963,11 @@ the partition layout you want: cfdisk @end example +If your disk uses the GUID Partition Table (GPT) format and you plan to +install BIOS-based GRUB (which is the default), make sure a BIOS Boot +Partition is available (@pxref{BIOS installation,,, grub, GNU GRUB +manual}). + Once you are done partitioning the target hard disk drive, you have to create a file system on the relevant partition(s)@footnote{Currently GuixSD only supports ext4 and btrfs file systems. In particular, code |