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On 09/04/14 09:53, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: |
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>On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I have a new SSD 480GB drive and I'm trying to partition it. It was some |
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>> time before I went through this so I found this information: |
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>> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD |
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>> But they omitted the Boot partition. |
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>> Device Start End Size Type |
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>> /dev/sda1 2048 6143 2M BIOS boot partition |
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>> /dev/sda2 6144 4200447 2G Linux swap |
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>> /dev/sda3 4200448 117231374 53.9G Linux filesystem |
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>> There is Bios Boot 2MB but no Boot partition where kernel is located. |
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>> The instruction from official Gentoo web-page is difference from display I'm |
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>> getting on my screen when I use "fdisk" |
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>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=4 |
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>> I don't have an option of extended partition not can I make Boot partition |
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>> /dev/sda2 (128MB) bootable by pressing "a" in fdisk. |
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>> Joseph |
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>While not an SSD user, I too had to set up gentoo from scratch on a |
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>laptop recently. I followed the disk partitioning instructions given |
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>in the handbook, with the following partitions created: |
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>Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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>/dev/sda1 1 3 5198+ ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) |
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>/dev/sda2 * 3 14 105808+ 83 Linux |
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>/dev/sda3 15 81 506520 82 Linux swap |
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>/dev/sda4 82 3876 28690200 83 Linux |
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I think this is an example like in the handbook, the problem is the gpt partition printout will look slightly different, so I got confused at the beginning. |
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What I have noticed is that these example don't show creating partition for "home' I think home now is on root partition sda4. |
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Joseph |
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