On 09/05/14 20:20, J. Roeleveld wrote:
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.
I'm trying to rescue my installation but it doesn't work.
I deleted sda1 and sda2 and converted them to sda1 Microsoft basic data
Installed legacy grub on it but it doesn't work.
Do I need to make sda1 bootable "*"
fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 447.1 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 37C37937-6310-4B04-93A6-05CD7792EF16
Device Start End Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 268287 130M Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda3 268288 4462591 2G Linux swap
/dev/sda4 4462592 937703054 445G Linux filesystem
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Joseph
