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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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It seems to me my BIOS can not read GPT partition so what are my alternatives? |
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I think I will have to format the SSD in MBR |
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How to use fidsk to partition HD in MBR; by default fdisk is going to GPT. |
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Joseph |
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