On 09/04/14 09:53, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Joseph <[email protected]> wrote:
I have a new SSD 480GB drive and I'm trying to partition it. It was some
time before I went through this so I found this information:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD
But they omitted the Boot partition.
Device Start End Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 6143 2M BIOS boot partition
/dev/sda2 6144 4200447 2G Linux swap
/dev/sda3 4200448 117231374 53.9G Linux filesystem
There is Bios Boot 2MB but no Boot partition where kernel is located.
The instruction from official Gentoo web-page is difference from display I'm
getting on my screen when I use "fdisk"
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=4
I don't have an option of extended partition not can I make Boot partition
/dev/sda2 (128MB) bootable by pressing "a" in fdisk.
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Joseph
While not an SSD user, I too had to set up gentoo from scratch on a
laptop recently. I followed the disk partitioning instructions given
in the handbook, with the following partitions created:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 3 5198+ ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
/dev/sda2 * 3 14 105808+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 15 81 506520 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda4 82 3876 28690200 83 Linux
I think this is an example like in the handbook, the problem is the gpt partition printout will look slightly different, so I got confused at the beginning.
What I have noticed is that these example don't show creating partition for "home' I think home now is on root partition sda4.
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Joseph
