On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Walter Cazzola <cazz...@di.unimi.it> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Walter Cazzola <cazz...@di.unimi.it>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > thanks all for the help at end I missed to create a bootbios partion of
>> > 2MiB
>> > once I added that the system booted. The strange point is that I didn't
>> > find
>> > it explained in any tutorial but thanks to your advice I noticed that
>> > entry
>> > in the filesystem menu.
>>
>> This is unexpected because BIOSBoot only exists on GPT. But Windows
>> requires MBR on BIOS (legacy) systems, and GPT on UEFI systems. It's
>> not possible to get it to do anything different. So if the
>> installation is GPT, that suggests UEFI installation, and there should
>> be an EFI System partition rather than BIOSBoot.
>>
>> The fact there is an extended partition, and boot flags in earlier
>> reports, shows this is an MBR partitioned drive. Those things don't
>> exist with GPT drives.
>
>
> I don't know what to say, this is my current configuration:
>
>  /dev/sda1              63      80324      80262  39.2M de Dell Utility
> /dev/sda2  *        81920   25710591   25628672  12.2G 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
> /dev/sda3        25710592  201408511  175697920  83.8G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> /dev/sda4       201408512 1953523711 1752115200 835.5G  5 Extended
> /dev/sda5       201410560  201414655       4096     2M 83 Linux
> /dev/sda6       201416704  202883071    1466368   716M 83 Linux
> /dev/sda7       202885120  307742719  104857600    50G 83 Linux
> /dev/sda8       307744768  358076415   50331648    24G 82 Linux swap / Sola
> /dev/sda9       358078464  372758527   14680064     7G 83 Linux
> /dev/sda10      372760576  383246335   10485760     5G 83 Linux
> /dev/sda11      383248384  393734143   10485760     5G 83 Linux
> /dev/sda12      393736192  396881919    3145728   1.5G  6 FAT16
> /dev/sda13      396883968 1953523711 1556639744 742.3G 83 Linux
>
> and for now the system boots correctly

There is no BIOSBoot in that list though. And that list is using MBR
type codes. I'd say this listing is unreliable, I don't know the
source. Please post the complete, unedited listing from:

# parted /dev/sda u s p

That'll provide better info.



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