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On 09/05/14 20:20, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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>On 5 September 2014 19:55:49 CEST, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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>>> |
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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" |
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>>but I |
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>>>> don't need the /dev/sda2 - this is my 128M boot partition. My |
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>>layout: |
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>>>> |
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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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>>>> |
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>>>> Can I combine sda1 and sda2? I mean delete both and create bigger |
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>>sda1 |
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>>>> make it a BIOS boot partition and format it as ext2; install grub2 |
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>>on |
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>>>> it. |
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>>> |
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>>>No you can't, read the previous posts. The BIOS boot partition is not |
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>>the |
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>>>same as /boot, it is a special partition needed for MBR compatibility |
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>>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 |
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>>/home. |
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>>>sda1 and 2 are fine as they are, don't break them. |
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>> |
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>>It seems to me my BIOS can not read GPT partition so what are my |
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>>alternatives? |
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>>I think I will have to format the SSD in MBR |
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>> |
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>>How to use fidsk to partition HD in MBR; by default fdisk is going to |
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>>GPT. |
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> |
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>fdisk can only do MBR partitioning. |
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>gdisk does GPT partitioning and can add MBR compatibility. |
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> |
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>With a disk of less them 2TB I wouldn't bother with GPT if you don't have an EFI mainboard. Do yourself a favour and partition the SSD as if it were a spinning disk. |
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I'm trying to rescue my installation but it doesn't work. |
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I deleted sda1 and sda2 and converted them to sda1 Microsoft basic data |
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Installed legacy grub on it but it doesn't work. |
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Do I need to make sda1 bootable "*" |
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fdisk -l /dev/sda |
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Disk /dev/sda: 447.1 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors |
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Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes |
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Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
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I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes |
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Disklabel type: gpt |
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Disk identifier: 37C37937-6310-4B04-93A6-05CD7792EF16 |
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Device Start End Size Type |
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/dev/sda1 2048 268287 130M Microsoft basic data |
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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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