From d918d79f6070d46a4ee49722cbf85da794b1fe50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?=E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6?= Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 20:17:35 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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. --- doc/guix.texi | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) 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