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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 21:31:16
Message-Id: 20201015223102.64b98f54@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile by Jack
1 On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:07:50 -0400, Jack wrote:
2
3 > In some sense, that's actually simpler, since you
4 > don't need an ESP/EFI partition.
5
6 Not really an issue if you use a separate /boot as the same partition
7 does for both.
8
9 > If your disk is formatted with an MBR
10 > partitioning scheme (max four partitions, although one can be extended)
11 > you will have no problem. However, and I have no experience here,
12 > although some systems can boot in BIOS mode to a GPT partitioned disk,
13 > there may be extra hoops to jump through. I'm sure others will chime
14 > in with additional information.
15
16 You can boot a non-UEFI system from a GPT partitioned disk, you just need
17 to add a small compatibility partition at the start of the disk, like this
18
19 GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.4
20
21 Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
22
23 Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
24 1 2048 4095 1024.0 KiB EF02 BIOS boot partition
25 2 4096 2101247 1024.0 MiB 8300 boot0
26 3 2101248 5852145663 2.7 TiB BF01 sundiver0
27 4 5852145664 5860533134 4.0 GiB 8200 swap0
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31 Neil Bothwick
32
33 The sooner you fall behind the more time you'll have to catch up.