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01/01: doc: Mention the need of a BIOS boot partition when using GPT.


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Subject: 01/01: doc: Mention the need of a BIOS boot partition when using GPT.
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:10:22 +0000 (UTC)

iyzsong pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit d918d79f6070d46a4ee49722cbf85da794b1fe50
Author: 宋文武 <address@hidden>
Date:   Sun Jan 22 20:17:35 2017 +0800

    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 4dc65ee..7093bf7 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



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