From: Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SUCCESS! Re: MBR partition
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 09:36:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140908153627.GB23438@syscon7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20140906T134504-469@post.gmane.org>
On 09/06/14 11:49, James wrote:
>Joseph <syscon780 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Thank you for the information.
>> I'll continue on Monday and let you know. If it will not boot with sector
>starting at 2048, I will
>> re-partition /boot sda1 to start at 63.
>
>
>Take some time to research and reflect on your needs (desires?)
>about which file system to use. (ext 2,4) is always popular and safe.
>Some are very happy with BTRFS and there are many other interesting
>choices (ZFS, XFS, etc etc)......
>
>There is no best solution; but the EXT family offers tried and proven
>options. YMMV.
>
>
>hth,
>James
After two days of fighting with it, I was able to get it to work.
It seems to me GPT is not compatible with my old BIOS after all. Using MBR and an old legacy grub worked.
The fdisk partitioned the /boot partition sda1 starting from 2048 and it worked without any problems.
--
Joseph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-08 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-06 3:02 [gentoo-user] MBR partition Joseph
2014-09-06 3:10 ` Joseph
2014-09-06 4:39 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-09-06 6:15 ` Kerin Millar
2014-09-06 10:44 ` Joseph
2014-09-06 11:49 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2014-09-06 12:48 ` Dale
2014-09-06 12:54 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-06 13:13 ` Rich Freeman
2014-09-06 14:05 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-06 14:22 ` Rich Freeman
2014-09-06 20:54 ` Kerin Millar
2014-09-06 22:58 ` Rich Freeman
2014-09-07 0:28 ` Dale
2014-09-07 1:53 ` Kerin Millar
2014-09-08 1:10 ` Dale
2014-09-06 12:56 ` Thanasis
2014-09-08 15:36 ` Joseph [this message]
2014-09-08 21:03 ` [gentoo-user] Re: SUCCESS! " James
2014-09-06 14:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2014-09-07 11:38 ` Mick
2014-09-06 12:14 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2014-09-06 12:53 ` Dale
2014-09-06 12:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2014-09-07 11:44 ` Mick
2014-09-07 12:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-07 12:45 ` Peter Humphrey
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