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.
It seems to me my BIOS can not read GPT partition so what are my alternatives?
I think I will have to format the SSD in MBR
How to use fidsk to partition HD in MBR; by default fdisk is going to GPT.
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Joseph
