Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device

[Joseph]

On 09/05/14 13:44, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 06:37:00 -0600, Joseph wrote:
>
>> My BIOS if from 1998 I think so it is not EFI.
>> I don't think I'm suppose to be doing this EFI.
>>
>> "...UEFI (~EFI) is a firmware interface that is widespread on recent
>> computers, especially those more recent than 2010. It is intended to
>> replace the traditional BIOS firmware interface that is prevalent on
>> earlier machines. "
>>
>> So think I should scrap the partition sda1 and sda2 and combine them
>> into one partition and install grub (not grub2).
>
>You need the BIOS boot partition, as described in the other thread, if
>you are using a GPT partition table (and you should). I've no idea
>whether legacy GRUB will handle this, but there's no point in starting
>with dead software. Keep the BIOS boot partition and use GRUB2 but ignore
>any advice referring to EFI.

[snip]
I made a typo my Bios is from around 2008 so it can not be EFI.
So I need a "BIOS boot partition" which in my case is "/dev/sda1" but I don't need the /dev/sda2 - this is my 128M boot partition.
My layout:

Device           Start          End   Size Type
/dev/sda1         2048         6143     2M BIOS boot partition
/dev/sda2         6144       268287   128M Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3       268288      4462591     2G Linux swap
/dev/sda4      4462592    937703054   445G Linux filesystem

Can I combine sda1 and sda2?  I mean delete both and create bigger sda1 make it a BIOS boot partition and format it as ext2; install grub2 on it.

-- 
Joseph