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 D02C513877A for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2014 12:50:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4503EE0A04; Sat, 6 Sep 2014 12:50:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com (mail-wg0-f44.google.com [74.125.82.44]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C5756E09D8 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2014 12:50:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id k14so40024wgh.3 for ; Sat, 06 Sep 2014 05:50:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QasSjFGHUe+1/RP51S+HQedN5v/4RNP0C2wicaxNniU=; b=OUaFG2//OHCKuy6b+vYJQ71BaIfDZcyWy9TZXcsUtRfVvC8/3oY6OeB9cP7DifNitC AYSp2WrclChtsip1wj1EF+DAV/bXariCeUPvJAbA2Ry+dd9PqPWo+0Uapq6aSWtRz7tj qdVZV7IVDeyWBhJtGhI4zQlH7Uwpw9EC9lmZcTAnP6AOwfB+dfSkBHEHfsiyBjr/tnmZ CBAc09bzMzYefIwG5rIjnJ1fQwBH3u7yY67HUpYRrAjNk82H/dvAaV1inszF2z2mWhUp YDFC2PUF53M9TDICC2r1V6AyMAkPoEVDl9rAEJg3HT/kss9aTCbuVJzR3TfuHfs1Kfts 6B6g== X-Received: by 10.194.61.65 with SMTP id n1mr20232452wjr.19.1410007832493; Sat, 06 Sep 2014 05:50:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-190-183.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.190.183]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ub19sm5079202wib.9.2014.09.06.05.50.31 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 06 Sep 2014 05:50:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <540B02D7.3090508@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 14:49:27 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition References: <20140906030219.GR7971@syscon7> In-Reply-To: <20140906030219.GR7971@syscon7> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4e9f0278-9b99-4cab-b161-652e275add85 X-Archives-Hash: 9bea76cd3c2836e358cee487052c7fc9 On 06/09/2014 05:02, Joseph wrote: > I'm configuring MBR partition for older disk and need to know what code > to enter for boot partition. My BIOS is not EFI type. > There is no such thing as an MBR partition. Please clarify. The MBR is the first sector of the disk. It simply exists and you use it as such. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com