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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:11:00 +0000 (UTC), James wrote: |
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> > First determine if the motherboards is a Bios or EFI variety. |
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> > Then, decide which bootloader you are going to use:: grub(legacy) grub2, |
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> > lilo, gummi, EFI, etc etc? Last, how many different distros will you |
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> > ultimately be booting off that disk. |
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> > Then with that data, decide which formatting tool to use. (Others will |
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> > disagree with this logical progression, which is good as long as they |
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> > refine there reasons, explicitly.) |
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> I agree up until the last paragraph. You can use gdisk and a GPT whether |
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> you are using BIO or EFI. The difference is in your first partition. For |
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> EFI it must be type EF00 and formatted with FAT. For BIOS booting you |
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> need to start the disk with a small BIOS compatibility partition of type |
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> EF02. This is 1M here and you don't format or use it, it just has to be |
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> there. |
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> Regarding the apparent lack of partitions, what does gdisk -l /dev/sde |
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> show? |
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And if its not your boot disk, you can still use gpt with no |
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restrictions which is what I have been doing. |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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covici@××××××××××.com |
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