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 7DC0B13838B for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2014 12:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEA41E08AE; Sun, 7 Sep 2014 12:26:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 965E8E0880 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2014 12:26:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f182.google.com with SMTP id w62so13821230wes.27 for ; Sun, 07 Sep 2014 05:26:57 -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=+5Of3jZkKirrr3y7QFbyDPb4X+09l3FgOIqSJ5yb5YY=; b=lsj6duMzeEeFdlNum8LSNCI6ggbVtG93cgROLoo8tcFGhExLMnDi8sQanrUItE9I3v nhhFrh/jg6Ww9lyX48UsbISnwmzgx6dJsT2FFTUMjzyaoiIrP1JW+znBLVimyRK7V4q4 Y6LjVLcMGoQEz46auL+A7wLpvcI1SG4vovOnR5aM11jzWfNhKjetHhurxLhvQ8e1VfXh 5uL+6mMOAAvjbDyI1Ef1ehUzU1NOEN3LN8AaLxFi0IU/pnaTJQtdG1stRBADTwbfqzqf TjaXlrj2SndeXOJ5QIVNPNoikusCasvHE5d8qakqnyRBCclGO8SgwWwJgxC3EKF1YU2T pJdQ== X-Received: by 10.180.20.196 with SMTP id p4mr15693137wie.56.1410092817232; Sun, 07 Sep 2014 05:26:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-53-178.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.53.178]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id z8sm8239816wiv.24.2014.09.07.05.26.56 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 07 Sep 2014 05:26:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <540C4ECE.20108@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 14:25:50 +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> <540B02D7.3090508@gmail.com> <201409071244.19284.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201409071244.19284.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5a932918-c795-4e5f-9b19-26042319b7b0 X-Archives-Hash: 31d30ba9f4b2db296e549518f0342d52 On 07/09/2014 13:44, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 06 Sep 2014 13:49:27 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> 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. > > I think the OP is meant to say that he is formatting an older disk (I'm > guessing less than 2TB) with a DOS partition table for the purpose of booting > with an MBR (as opposed to UEFI). > > Of course I am reading between the lines here, because the OP has not > formulated the question clearly enough for me to know what kind of code he is > referring to (the whole PC is full of ... code) and where does he intend to > enter such code. > I agree, and I figured the same. Still waiting for his answer. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com