On 09/05/14 14:11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 07:06:27 -0600, Joseph wrote:
I made a typo my Bios is from around 2008 so it can not be EFI.
So I need a "BIOS boot partition" which in my case is "/dev/sda1" but I
don't need the /dev/sda2 - this is my 128M boot partition. My layout:
Device Start End Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 6143 2M BIOS boot partition
/dev/sda2 6144 268287 128M Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3 268288 4462591 2G Linux swap
/dev/sda4 4462592 937703054 445G Linux filesystem
Can I combine sda1 and sda2? I mean delete both and create bigger sda1
make it a BIOS boot partition and format it as ext2; install grub2 on
it.
No you can't, read the previous posts. The BIOS boot partition is not the
same as /boot, it is a special partition needed for MBR compatibility and
nothing to do with the OS files. The partition layout you have is
suitable, don't mess with it except possibly to create a separate /home.
sda1 and 2 are fine as they are, don't break them.
So, why isn't it booting?
sda2 is mounted on /boot there is the content:
ls -al /boot/
total 8671
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Sep 4 14:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Sep 4 16:51 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94478 Sep 4 11:41 config-3.14.14-gentoo
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 Sep 4 18:56 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 27 19:26 .keep
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Sep 4 09:06 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3037035 Sep 4 11:41 System.map-3.14.14-gentoo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5689632 Sep 4 11:41 vmlinuz-3.14.14-gentoo
kernel is there, grub is installed. Where did I made a mistake?
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Joseph
