Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 12:41 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday 28 Jul 2016 18:36:52 David Haller wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, James wrote: >> [..] >> >> Well, the best I found is this on the gdisk homepage: >> http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html >> >> Basically, you shouldn't. The article tackles most aspects and >> pitfalls. >> >> [..] >> > #parted -l /dev/sda >> > Model: ATA WDC WD20EARX-00P (scsi) >> > Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB >> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B > ^^^^^^ > It seems you did not use gdisk or a late version of parted to created the > partition table? Modern partition tools align the logical and physical > sectors to 4096B.
It can be changed. SSDs are best used with 512B sectors. But, err... > James should set the boot flag in the partition table for /dev/sda1 and mount > it under /boot (or /boot/EFI) in fstab. > >> By following the example in the above webpage, it worked on a file. >> But it is rather sure to fail if you need more than 3 partitions (as >> one is taken for the GPT, that leaves 3 more primary ones in the MBR >> and logical partitions is doomed to fail. >> The protective MBR can point to another one and you can select which GPT partitions are in it. But that's getting into some rube goldberg action.
