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On 09/05/14 14:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 07:06:27 -0600, Joseph wrote: |
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>> I made a typo my Bios is from around 2008 so it can not be EFI. |
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>> So I need a "BIOS boot partition" which in my case is "/dev/sda1" but I |
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>> don't need the /dev/sda2 - this is my 128M boot partition. My layout: |
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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 268287 128M Linux filesystem |
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>> /dev/sda3 268288 4462591 2G Linux swap |
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>> /dev/sda4 4462592 937703054 445G Linux filesystem |
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>> Can I combine sda1 and sda2? I mean delete both and create bigger sda1 |
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>> make it a BIOS boot partition and format it as ext2; install grub2 on |
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>> it. |
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>No you can't, read the previous posts. The BIOS boot partition is not the |
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>same as /boot, it is a special partition needed for MBR compatibility and |
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>nothing to do with the OS files. The partition layout you have is |
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>suitable, don't mess with it except possibly to create a separate /home. |
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>sda1 and 2 are fine as they are, don't break them. |
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So, why isn't it booting? |
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sda2 is mounted on /boot there is the content: |
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ls -al /boot/ |
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total 8671 |
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drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Sep 4 14:29 . |
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drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Sep 4 16:51 .. |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94478 Sep 4 11:41 config-3.14.14-gentoo |
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drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 Sep 4 18:56 grub |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 27 19:26 .keep |
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drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Sep 4 09:06 lost+found |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3037035 Sep 4 11:41 System.map-3.14.14-gentoo |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5689632 Sep 4 11:41 vmlinuz-3.14.14-gentoo |
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kernel is there, grub is installed. Where did I made a mistake? |
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Joseph |
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