Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote:
> I have a new SSD 480GB drive and I'm trying to partition it.  It was some
> time before I went through this so I found this information:
> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD
>
> But they omitted the Boot partition.
>  Device           Start          End   Size Type
>  /dev/sda1         2048         6143     2M BIOS boot partition
>  /dev/sda2         6144      4200447     2G Linux swap
>  /dev/sda3      4200448    117231374  53.9G Linux filesystem
>
> There is Bios Boot 2MB but no Boot partition where kernel is located.
>
> The instruction from official Gentoo web-page is difference from display I'm
> getting on my screen when I use "fdisk"
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=4
>
> I don't have an option of extended partition not can I make Boot partition
> /dev/sda2 (128MB) bootable by pressing "a" in fdisk.
>
> --
> Joseph
>

While not an SSD user, I too had to set up gentoo from scratch on a
laptop recently. I followed the disk partitioning instructions given
in the handbook, with the following partitions created:

Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1             1         3      5198+  ef  EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
/dev/sda2   *         3        14    105808+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3            15        81    506520   82  Linux swap
/dev/sda4            82      3876  28690200   83  Linux