> > > Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries > This is not necessary. Menu X, D will allow you to change this to 1. > The 2048 value is just wasteful (an overly safe default). Whether you > care about losing that 2MB is your call... >
True I can start at 8, not a big deal. > > > Total free space is 1058782 sectors (517.0 MiB) > > > > Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name > > 1 2048 411647 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System > > 2 675840 677887 1024.0 KiB EF02 BIOS boot > > 3 942080 3039231 1024.0 MiB 0700 Linux/Windows > > 4 3303424 1464884942 696.9 GiB 8E00 Linux LVM > Looks great. Do you really need partition 1? If it's a BIOS system, the > first partition has no purpose. > > ESP is not needed on this system but if I want to boot this disk from another PC with EFI I don't want to re-do the whole partition table. Again 200MB is not a big deal. > Your partitioning is fine. It's not optimal, but it will work as it > should. Just remember to install grub2 on the whole disk (/dev/sda), > not in a partition. > Thanks for the confirmation. >From what I understand EF02 BIOS boot partition holds the GRUB stage 2 files, right? Also Sqeeze only installs GRUB legacy by default, is there a way to install GRUB2 during the install? -- Kind regards, Yudi
