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On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 09:50:44 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> The Gentoo Handbook says to create a small unformatted partition at the |
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> beginning of the (primary?) disk, then to create a FAT-32 partition for |
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> /boot, then whatever other partitions are required. |
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> Neil said above that he doesn't do that; he omits the unformatted |
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> partition, and I believe that's quite popular. I tried following the |
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> same scheme, but that's what caused the difficulties I started this |
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> thread with: on this system I need both those partitions. The system |
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> will not boot without both of them. [1] |
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[snip] |
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> 1. I remember, dimly, that while commissioning this machine from new, |
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> I had trouble installing and running grub:2. I knew even less about |
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> UEFI systems then, so if I were to try it again now I might find a way. |
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> But I hate the damn thing, so as long as I don't need it it's not |
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> getting near my machines. |
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I thought you were using systemd-boot, not GRUB? GRUB may need the |
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protected MBR space, but I only use GRUB on non-UEFI systems, where the |
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blank partition is needed with GPT partitioning. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a |
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warning to others. |
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