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From: Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 03:10:56
Message-Id: 20140906031059.GS7971@syscon7
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] MBR partition by Joseph
1 On 09/05/14 21:02, Joseph wrote:
2 >I'm configuring MBR partition for older disk and need to know what code to enter for boot partition.
3 >My BIOS is not EFI type.
4
5 My current configuration:
6 fdisk -l /dev/sda
7
8 Disk /dev/sda: 447.1 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors
9 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
10 Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
11 I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
12 Disklabel type: dos
13 Disk identifier: 0x021589e5
14
15 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
16 /dev/sda1 * 2048 155647 76800 83 Linux
17 /dev/sda2 155648 4349951 2097152 82 Linux swap / Solaris
18 /dev/sda3 4349952 937703087 466676568 83 Linux
19
20 Does the sda1 has to start with "1" or 2048?
21
22 --
23 Joseph

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition Kerin Millar <kerframil@×××××××××××.uk>