Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 04:39:49
Message-Id: c139e243-0db0-4613-bcb4-df3497f584cf@email.android.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition by Joseph
1 On 6 September 2014 05:10:59 CEST, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >On 09/05/14 21:02, Joseph wrote:
3 >>I'm configuring MBR partition for older disk and need to know what
4 >code to enter for boot partition.
5 >>My BIOS is not EFI type.
6 >
7 >My current configuration:
8 >fdisk -l /dev/sda
9 >
10 >Disk /dev/sda: 447.1 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors
11 >Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
12 >Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
13 >I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
14 >Disklabel type: dos
15 >Disk identifier: 0x021589e5
16 >
17 >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
18 >/dev/sda1 * 2048 155647 76800 83 Linux
19 >/dev/sda2 155648 4349951 2097152 82 Linux swap / Solaris
20 >/dev/sda3 4349952 937703087 466676568 83 Linux
21 >
22 >Does the sda1 has to start with "1" or 2048?
23
24 This should work.
25 If, after following the handbook, it doesn't boot.
26 Please tell us what actually happens.
27
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29 Joost
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31 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.