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 59F2F13877A for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 17:55:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 79F2EE0A6D; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 17:55:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail143c7.megamailservers.com (mail121c7-2520.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.23]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5265DE0A5D for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 17:55:39 +0000 (UTC) X-POP-User: admin@sys-concept.com X-VIP: 69.49.109.100 Received: from syscon7.localdomain (S01060050da7ae68c.ed.shawcable.net [68.149.90.13]) by mail143c7.megamailservers.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id s85Hta7W025363 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 13:55:38 -0400 Received: by syscon7.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1F4BE20027E; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 11:55:49 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 11:55:49 -0600 From: Joseph To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device Message-ID: <20140905175549.GL7971@syscon7> References: <20140905001746.GI7483@syscon7> <20140905003621.GJ7483@syscon7> <540922BF.4090708@gmail.com> <20140905034614.GB7971@syscon7> <20140905090442.6167a914@digimed.co.uk> <20140905123700.GD7971@syscon7> <20140905134424.7b94d5e5@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <20140905130627.GE7971@syscon7> <20140905141102.23b728db@hactar.digimed.co.uk> 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=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140905141102.23b728db@hactar.digimed.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020204.5409F91A.00BC,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.1 cv=cZDr8BzM c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:117 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:17 a=SDcUNfBxAAAA:8 a=BDKbP5mgAAAA:8 a=Unq3plm5DvEA:10 a=M1kyBYkWWGkA:10 a=t13s2OSXYqYA:10 a=ROiWby8cJu4A:10 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=zOag7JfQm2HsZnuywr0A:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 X-Archives-Salt: 2d54c3bb-6ac5-4436-90f1-1cecd398a57b X-Archives-Hash: b45b64d7de0d887b0be1a3f396f18524 On 09/05/14 14:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 07:06:27 -0600, Joseph wrote: > >> 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. > >No you can't, read the previous posts. The BIOS boot partition is not the >same as /boot, it is a special partition needed for MBR compatibility and >nothing to do with the OS files. The partition layout you have is >suitable, don't mess with it except possibly to create a separate /home. >sda1 and 2 are fine as they are, don't break them. It seems to me my BIOS can not read GPT partition so what are my alternatives? I think I will have to format the SSD in MBR How to use fidsk to partition HD in MBR; by default fdisk is going to GPT. -- Joseph