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On Wed, 20 May 2015 08:21:34 -0400, covici@××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> > If you want to be able to use UEFI, you need to use GPT. UEFI needs a |
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> > FAT partition at the start of the drive, type FE00, but booting a GPT |
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> > disk with MBR requires a small BIOS boot partition, type EF02, at the |
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> > start of the drive (mine is 1MB). |
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> > For ease of switching to UEFI later, I'd do |
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> > sda1 1MB BIOS boot, type EF00 |
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> > sda2 /boot, type 8300 |
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> > everything else. |
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> > You can make sda2 ext2, then, when it is time to switch, simply backup |
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> > the contents of /boot, replace sda1 and sda2 with a single EF00 |
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> > partition, formatted with FAT, and copy the contents of /boot back. |
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> Thanks, does the 1mb partition have to have anything in it? |
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No. If doesn't even need a filesystem, just create the partition with the |
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correct type and GRUB will work. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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One-seventh of life is spent on Monday. |