On 09/05/14 14:11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 07:06:27 -0600, Joseph wrote:
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.
No you can't, read the previous posts. The BIOS boot partition is not the
same as /boot, it is a special partition needed for MBR compatibility and
nothing to do with the OS files. The partition layout you have is
suitable, don't mess with it except possibly to create a separate /home.
sda1 and 2 are fine as they are, don't break them.
According to:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2#BIOS.2FMBR_or_BIOS.2FGPT
"BIOS/MBR or BIOS/GPT
Installing in this mode is straight forward as it's just like the legacy GRUB with new GRUB2 additions. If you have a GPT partition table, you will need a small BIOS
boot partition. 1 MiB may be enough but 2-4 MiB will definitely work. It will hold stage 2 of the bootloader and you don't need to format the partition with a
filesystem - grub2-install will overwrite it anyway. You can mark a partition with the command line tool "parted" by typing (change 1 to the number of the partition
you want to mark as a BIOS Boot partition!): "
I don't need to format sda1, grub2-install should take care of it. So what am
I doing wrong?
I've installed many Gentoo systems in the past (it was long time ago),
everything went smooth but not this time.
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Joseph
