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From: Jonathan Callen <jcallen@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Change EFI to BIOS Boot
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 15:08:43
Message-Id: 534AA858.9030009@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Change EFI to BIOS Boot by Tom H
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4 On 04/12/2014 08:19 AM, Tom H wrote:
5 > On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
6 >> Am 12.04.2014 12:45, schrieb Facu Curti:
7 >>>
8 >>> Partition Table: gpt
9 >>
10 >> : This
11 >
12 > You can have a gpt partition table with BIOS but if you want to boot from that disk, you need a
13 > bios_boot partition (which the OP has) for grub to embed a binary.
14 >
15 >
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17 Technically, I don't think you need a bios_boot partition if you leave enough space between the
18 partition table and the first partition (I don't recall having a problem when my first partition
19 started 2048 sectors (1MiB) into the disk).
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22 Jonathan Callen
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Change EFI to BIOS Boot Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com>