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From: Christian Kruse <cjk@×××××××.ch>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 07:02:32
Message-Id: 20140904070220.DB1FA726E00C@jugulator.defunced.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions by Joseph
1 Hi,
2
3 At Wed, 3 Sep 2014 22:30:32 -0600, Joseph wrote:
4 > But they omitted the Boot partition.
5 > Device Start End Size Type
6 > /dev/sda1 2048 6143 2M BIOS boot partition
7 > /dev/sda2 6144 4200447 2G Linux swap
8 > /dev/sda3 4200448 117231374 53.9G Linux filesystem
9 >
10 > There is Bios Boot 2MB but no Boot partition where kernel is located.
11
12 The 2M partition is the boot partition. But it is much to small, I've
13 been re-sizing it to 1G. That's more than enough for the initrd image,
14 grub and the kernel.
15
16 By the way, keep in mind that if you plan to use suspend to disk you
17 will need 2x RAM disk space on swap in the worst case.
18
19 Best regards,
20 --
21 Christian Kruse
22 http://ck.kennt-wayne.de/

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Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>