From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52CB1138CD0 for ; Wed, 20 May 2015 13:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D16B7E098A; Wed, 20 May 2015 13:24:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail0131.smtp25.com (mail0131.smtp25.com [75.126.84.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D1B1FE0901 for ; Wed, 20 May 2015 13:24:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.14.8) with ESMTP id t4KDOCi3010327 for ; Wed, 20 May 2015 09:24:13 -0400 From: covici@ccs.covici.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2 In-reply-to: <20150520135527.5307f92a@digimed.co.uk> References: <1595871.4SttVHg2nm@wstn> <20150520102355.2eb77275@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <1878433.ZRiRyd1Yt7@wstn> <4981.1432119113@ccs.covici.com> <20150520130607.2a3e623b@digimed.co.uk> <7640.1432124494@ccs.covici.com> <20150520135527.5307f92a@digimed.co.uk> Comments: In-reply-to Neil Bothwick message dated "Wed, 20 May 2015 13:55:27 +0100." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.5; nmh 1.6; GNU Emacs 23.4.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <10325.1432128252.1@ccs.covici.com> Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 09:24:12 -0400 Message-ID: <10326.1432128252@ccs.covici.com> X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 X-SpamH-Filter: d-out-001.smtp25.com-t4KDODaq016292 X-Archives-Salt: a5d698a0-6df7-4f29-88b8-16549bdbdc31 X-Archives-Hash: 258499e4b5d006cf98d1462185efc023 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 20 May 2015 08:21:34 -0400, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > > If you want to be able to use UEFI, you need to use GPT. UEFI needs a > > > FAT partition at the start of the drive, type FE00, but booting a GPT > > > disk with MBR requires a small BIOS boot partition, type EF02, at the > > > start of the drive (mine is 1MB). > > > > > > For ease of switching to UEFI later, I'd do > > > > > > sda1 1MB BIOS boot, type EF00 > > > sda2 /boot, type 8300 > > > everything else. > > > > > > You can make sda2 ext2, then, when it is time to switch, simply backup > > > the contents of /boot, replace sda1 and sda2 with a single EF00 > > > partition, formatted with FAT, and copy the contents of /boot back. > > > > Thanks, does the 1mb partition have to have anything in it? > > No. If doesn't even need a filesystem, just create the partition with the > correct type and GRUB will work. I have been usinglilo, so till I need to go to a uefi mb, that seems to work. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com