From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 21:34:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160721213426.27a0c42b@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20160721T220453-936@post.gmane.org>
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:11:00 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:
> First determine if the motherboards is a Bios or EFI variety.
>
> Then, decide which bootloader you are going to use:: grub(legacy) grub2,
> lilo, gummi, EFI, etc etc? Last, how many different distros will you
> ultimately be booting off that disk.
>
> Then with that data, decide which formatting tool to use. (Others will
> disagree with this logical progression, which is good as long as they
> refine there reasons, explicitly.)
I agree up until the last paragraph. You can use gdisk and a GPT whether
you are using BIO or EFI. The difference is in your first partition. For
EFI it must be type EF00 and formatted with FAT. For BIOS booting you
need to start the disk with a small BIOS compatibility partition of type
EF02. This is 1M here and you don't format or use it, it just has to be
there.
Regarding the apparent lack of partitions, what does gdisk -l /dev/sde
show?
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Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-21 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-21 17:36 [gentoo-user] GPT newbee needs some help Helmut Jarausch
2016-07-21 18:04 ` Mick
2016-07-21 18:07 ` R0b0t1
2016-07-21 19:12 ` covici
2016-07-21 20:11 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2016-07-21 20:34 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2016-07-21 20:58 ` covici
2016-07-21 22:01 ` James
2016-07-21 22:10 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-07-22 8:04 ` Helmut Jarausch
2016-07-22 8:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-07-22 8:37 ` Helmut Jarausch
2016-07-22 8:49 ` Dmitry Bogun
2016-07-22 12:05 ` Helmut Jarausch
2016-07-26 17:29 ` John Runyon
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