On Thursday 28 Jul 2016 18:36:52 David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, James wrote: > [..] > > Well, the best I found is this on the gdisk homepage: > http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html > > Basically, you shouldn't. The article tackles most aspects and > pitfalls. > > [..] > > #parted -l /dev/sda > > Model: ATA WDC WD20EARX-00P (scsi) > > Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B ^^^^^^ It seems you did not use gdisk or a late version of parted to created the partition table? Modern partition tools align the logical and physical sectors to 4096B.
> > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > > 1 1049kB 211MB 210MB primary ext2 boot Instead of ext2 follow the guide for creating a FAT fs partition with an EF00 partition type. > > 2 211MB 139GB 138GB primary linux-swap(v1) > > 3 139GB 952GB 813GB primary ext4 > > 4 952GB 2000GB 1049GB primary ext4 > > You'd have to get rid of one of those partitions (I'd say /boot). James should set the boot flag in the partition table for /dev/sda1 and mount it under /boot (or /boot/EFI) in fstab. > By following the example in the above webpage, it worked on a file. > But it is rather sure to fail if you need more than 3 partitions (as > one is taken for the GPT, that leaves 3 more primary ones in the MBR > and logical partitions is doomed to fail. > > HTH, > -dnh -- Regards, Mick
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