From: Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 07:06:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140905130627.GE7971@syscon7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140905134424.7b94d5e5@hactar.digimed.co.uk>
On 09/05/14 13:44, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 06:37:00 -0600, Joseph wrote:
>
>> My BIOS if from 1998 I think so it is not EFI.
>> I don't think I'm suppose to be doing this EFI.
>>
>> "...UEFI (~EFI) is a firmware interface that is widespread on recent
>> computers, especially those more recent than 2010. It is intended to
>> replace the traditional BIOS firmware interface that is prevalent on
>> earlier machines. "
>>
>> So think I should scrap the partition sda1 and sda2 and combine them
>> into one partition and install grub (not grub2).
>
>You need the BIOS boot partition, as described in the other thread, if
>you are using a GPT partition table (and you should). I've no idea
>whether legacy GRUB will handle this, but there's no point in starting
>with dead software. Keep the BIOS boot partition and use GRUB2 but ignore
>any advice referring to EFI.
[snip]
I made a typo my Bios is from around 2008 so it can not be EFI.
So I need a "BIOS boot partition" which in my case is "/dev/sda1" but I don't need the /dev/sda2 - this is my 128M boot partition.
My layout:
Device Start End Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 6143 2M BIOS boot partition
/dev/sda2 6144 268287 128M Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3 268288 4462591 2G Linux swap
/dev/sda4 4462592 937703054 445G Linux filesystem
Can I combine sda1 and sda2? I mean delete both and create bigger sda1 make it a BIOS boot partition and format it as ext2; install grub2 on it.
--
Joseph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-05 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-05 0:17 [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device Joseph
2014-09-05 0:36 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 2:41 ` Daniel Frey
2014-09-05 3:14 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 3:42 ` Daniel Frey
2014-09-05 3:44 ` Daniel Frey
2014-09-05 4:08 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 4:30 ` Sid S
2014-09-05 3:46 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 8:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-05 12:37 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 12:44 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-05 13:06 ` Joseph [this message]
2014-09-05 13:11 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-05 13:38 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 14:25 ` Rich Freeman
2014-09-05 14:54 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 15:08 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 14:02 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 19:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-05 19:54 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 21:06 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-05 22:07 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 22:32 ` Bill Kenworthy
2014-09-05 23:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-05 17:55 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 18:20 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-09-05 19:22 ` Joseph
2014-09-05 19:24 ` Neil Bothwick
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