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 BDDF113877A for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2014 04:39:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7FD2BE0B0E; Sat, 6 Sep 2014 04:39:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.168]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54666E0A88 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2014 04:39:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.136] (helo=smtp5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1XQ7mn-0000zQ-9L for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2014 06:39:41 +0200 Received: from 53579160.cm-6-8c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.87.145.96] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1XQ7mm-0000We-U7 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2014 06:39:41 +0200 Received: from [10.20.13.49] (unknown [10.20.13.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 848B04B for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2014 06:39:34 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <20140906031059.GS7971@syscon7> References: <20140906030219.GR7971@syscon7> <20140906031059.GS7971@syscon7> 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=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition From: "J. Roeleveld" Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 06:39:39 +0200 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Ziggo-spambar: ---- X-Ziggo-spamscore: -4.9 X-Ziggo-spamreport: ALL_TRUSTED=-1,BAYES_00=-1.9,PROLO_TRUST_RDNS=-3,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: 96fb731e-b2f3-475c-849e-d208fd59cbb0 X-Archives-Hash: 4ee4a5dcb799818b1d5ea33bdb71e6b3 On 6 September 2014 05:10:59 CEST, Joseph wrote: >On 09/05/14 21:02, 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. > >My current configuration: >fdisk -l /dev/sda > >Disk /dev/sda: 447.1 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors >Units: sectors of 1 * 512 =3D 512 bytes >Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes >I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes >Disklabel type: dos >Disk identifier: 0x021589e5 > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System >/dev/sda1 * 2048 155647 76800 83 Linux >/dev/sda2 155648 4349951 2097152 82 Linux swap / Solaris >/dev/sda3 4349952 937703087 466676568 83 Linux > >Does the sda1 has to start with "1" or 2048? =20 This should work. If, after following the handbook, it doesn't boot. Please tell us what actually happens. -- Joost --=20 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.