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WDe and GPT, booting DOS (Users)

posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 12.12.2022, 10:34

> Yesterday I could get the following screen capture (from which I could
> navigate to the First Basic Data partition (FAT32)
That's the crucial point: knowing WDe enough so you are able to navigate to the correct location.


> Type: {ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7}
> First LBA: 567296                      Last LBA: 1921417215
> Size: 937915 MB                        Flags: 0
> Name: Basic data partition

As you can see, this is a rather large partition ( 940 GB ), so probably not the one you want to boot from.

My advise is: don't be so eager to modify anything with WDe. In a first step, create the FAT32 partition ( using Windows/Linux tools? ) and make GRUB add it in its boot menu. That's not entirely trivial, because GRUB expects a few things to be found on the partition before it accepts it as something that's bootable.

Only AFTER this is done, WDe will be used...

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