Hi again, all -- ...and then David T-G home said... % % I have a system with a 128G SSD /dev/sda that is my boot, swap, and % data drive. It is sliced into partitions with a GPT layout and it has ... % % Somehow I have tanked grub2. If the box gets anywhere at all, it only ... % % I've never had a separate /boot or /efi partition and I've switched over % to GPT long ago; this system was built with GPT tables. But it somehow % used to boot ... [snip] Well, by now I'm so happy I could just shit^Wshoot myself. I still dunno what's up with grub on sda, so I decided to just screw it and install anew on sde, which contains partitions of mirrors for swap, current root ("prev"), future root ("next"), and data. Install happened and grub blew up again. ARRRGH! Fine ... I wasted off another slice (at first just a few MiB but then 256MiB after watching that round blow up) and have tried it as /boot and /boot/efi under both EFI and legacy config, and ... everything fails! This has also been mirrored, so my last resort options appear to be 1) to skip the mirror and have two /boot partitions (and how do I keep THAT kind of mess in sync??!?) or 2) to abandon GPT and use MSDOS partitioning. Really?? This is insane. I have NO FRICKIN' IDEA how this ever worked before -- twice, in fact, and WITHOUT my even realizing that I was holding my tongue just right! So, I figure, I must be going about this the wrong way. I can't be the only stupid idiot out there who wants to mirror his boot devices, likes GPT, and expects to use GRUB2. How should I be configuring this installation to make it all Just Work again? Does anyone out there have anything comparable to share? TIA again & have a great night :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt