Re: Grub rescue

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Jordan Uggla <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 3:19 PM, David WE Roberts <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Now the 3TB [when did the notation move from GB to GiB?] permanent data
>> disc has turned up I need to move my partitions across from an MBR disc to
>> a GPT disc but keep the booting organisation effectively the same.
>>
>> So I seem to be stuck in a transition between old and new disc formats,
>> and old and new BIOS formats.
>
> The normal procedure is to just run grub-install and (if needed)
> grub-mkconfig after making whatever partitioning changes you want. Is
> there any reason you can't do that?
>

To run grub-install you need to boot first, and to boot you need
access to /boot/grub and to access /boot/grub you need part_gpt. Which
is not available until you can access /boot/grub. Catch 22.