Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
I have been usinglilo, so till I need to go to a uefi mb, that seems to
work.
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