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Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thursday 28 Jul 2016 18:36:52 David Haller wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, James wrote: |
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>> [..] |
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>> Well, the best I found is this on the gdisk homepage: |
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>> http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html |
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>> Basically, you shouldn't. The article tackles most aspects and |
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>> pitfalls. |
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>> [..] |
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>> > #parted -l /dev/sda |
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>> > Model: ATA WDC WD20EARX-00P (scsi) |
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>> > Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB |
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>> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B |
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> ^^^^^^ |
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> It seems you did not use gdisk or a late version of parted to created the |
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> partition table? Modern partition tools align the logical and physical |
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> sectors to 4096B. |
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It can be changed. SSDs are best used with 512B sectors. But, err... |
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> James should set the boot flag in the partition table for /dev/sda1 and mount |
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> it under /boot (or /boot/EFI) in fstab. |
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>> By following the example in the above webpage, it worked on a file. |
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>> But it is rather sure to fail if you need more than 3 partitions (as |
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>> one is taken for the GPT, that leaves 3 more primary ones in the MBR |
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>> and logical partitions is doomed to fail. |
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The protective MBR can point to another one and you can select which |
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GPT partitions are in it. But that's getting into some rube goldberg |
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action. |