On Wed, 20 May 2015 08:21:34 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > If you want to be able to use UEFI, you need to use GPT. UEFI needs a > > FAT partition at the start of the drive, type FE00, but booting a GPT > > disk with MBR requires a small BIOS boot partition, type EF02, at the > > start of the drive (mine is 1MB). > > > > For ease of switching to UEFI later, I'd do > > > > sda1 1MB BIOS boot, type EF00 > > sda2 /boot, type 8300 > > everything else. > > > > You can make sda2 ext2, then, when it is time to switch, simply backup > > the contents of /boot, replace sda1 and sda2 with a single EF00 > > partition, formatted with FAT, and copy the contents of /boot back. > > Thanks, does the 1mb partition have to have anything in it?
No. If doesn't even need a filesystem, just create the partition with the correct type and GRUB will work. -- Neil Bothwick One-seventh of life is spent on Monday.
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