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I have a new SSD 480GB drive and I'm trying to partition it. It was some 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 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 /dev/sda2 (128MB) bootable by pressing "a" in fdisk. |
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Joseph |