On 09/05/14 13:44, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 06:37:00 -0600, Joseph wrote:
My BIOS if from 1998 I think so it is not EFI.
I don't think I'm suppose to be doing this EFI.
"...UEFI (~EFI) is a firmware interface that is widespread on recent
computers, especially those more recent than 2010. It is intended to
replace the traditional BIOS firmware interface that is prevalent on
earlier machines. "
So think I should scrap the partition sda1 and sda2 and combine them
into one partition and install grub (not grub2).
You need the BIOS boot partition, as described in the other thread, if
you are using a GPT partition table (and you should). I've no idea
whether legacy GRUB will handle this, but there's no point in starting
with dead software. Keep the BIOS boot partition and use GRUB2 but ignore
any advice referring to EFI.
[snip]
I made a typo my Bios is from around 2008 so it can not be EFI.
So I need a "BIOS boot partition" which in my case is "/dev/sda1" but I don't
need the /dev/sda2 - this is my 128M boot partition.
My layout:
Device Start End Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 6143 2M BIOS boot partition
/dev/sda2 6144 268287 128M Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3 268288 4462591 2G Linux swap
/dev/sda4 4462592 937703054 445G Linux filesystem
Can I combine sda1 and sda2? I mean delete both and create bigger sda1 make it
a BIOS boot partition and format it as ext2; install grub2 on it.
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Joseph
