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On Thursday 28 Jul 2016 18:36:52 David Haller wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, James wrote: |
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> [..] |
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> Well, the best I found is this on the gdisk homepage: |
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> http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html |
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> Basically, you shouldn't. The article tackles most aspects and |
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> pitfalls. |
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> [..] |
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> > #parted -l /dev/sda |
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> > Model: ATA WDC WD20EARX-00P (scsi) |
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> > Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB |
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> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B |
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^^^^^^ |
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It seems you did not use gdisk or a late version of parted to created the |
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partition table? Modern partition tools align the logical and physical |
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sectors to 4096B. |
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> > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags |
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> > 1 1049kB 211MB 210MB primary ext2 boot |
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Instead of ext2 follow the guide for creating a FAT fs partition with an EF00 |
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partition type. |
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> > 2 211MB 139GB 138GB primary linux-swap(v1) |
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> > 3 139GB 952GB 813GB primary ext4 |
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> > 4 952GB 2000GB 1049GB primary ext4 |
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> You'd have to get rid of one of those partitions (I'd say /boot). |
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James should set the boot flag in the partition table for /dev/sda1 and mount |
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it under /boot (or /boot/EFI) in fstab. |
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> By following the example in the above webpage, it worked on a file. |
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> But it is rather sure to fail if you need more than 3 partitions (as |
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> one is taken for the GPT, that leaves 3 more primary ones in the MBR |
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> and logical partitions is doomed to fail. |
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> HTH, |
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> -dnh |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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