On 5 September 2014 19:55:49 CEST, Joseph <[email protected]> wrote: >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.
fdisk can only do MBR partitioning. gdisk does GPT partitioning and can add MBR compatibility. With a disk of less them 2TB I wouldn't bother with GPT if you don't have an EFI mainboard. Do yourself a favour and partition the SSD as if it were a spinning disk. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
