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On 09/06/14 11:49, James wrote: |
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>Joseph <syscon780 <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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>> Thank you for the information. |
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>> I'll continue on Monday and let you know. If it will not boot with sector |
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>starting at 2048, I will |
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>> re-partition /boot sda1 to start at 63. |
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>Take some time to research and reflect on your needs (desires?) |
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>about which file system to use. (ext 2,4) is always popular and safe. |
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>Some are very happy with BTRFS and there are many other interesting |
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>choices (ZFS, XFS, etc etc)...... |
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>There is no best solution; but the EXT family offers tried and proven |
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>options. YMMV. |
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>hth, |
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>James |
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After two days of fighting with it, I was able to get it to work. |
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It seems to me GPT is not compatible with my old BIOS after all. Using MBR and an old legacy grub worked. |
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The fdisk partitioned the /boot partition sda1 starting from 2048 and it worked without any problems. |
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Joseph |
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