Dan McGhee wrote:
I started this thread so that I wouldn’t hijack my own over on -dev.
The article goes on from here with an exercise using VirtualBox to
“...set up a new system based on UEFI and GPT. Our new system will dual
boot: it will work with both UEFI and BIOS firmware. “ The disk created
was 10GB.
I am not able to “copy and paste” the partition table after the
exercise from running <parted -l>. So I will attempt to recreate the table:
Number Start End Size Code Name
1 2048 411647 200.MiB EF00 EFI System
2 34 2047 1007.0 KiB EF02 BIOS boot partition
3 411648 821247 200.0 MiB 8300 Linux /boot filesystem
4 821248 20971486 200.0 MiB 8300 Linux /root filesystem
I hope that table comes through holding the formatting.
Not quite. I reformatted a bit by removing tabs/spaces.
However, I think the format of the disk above is poor. The partitions
are out of order. 1 and 2 are reversed. Also, the BIOS boot partition
is not aligned on a 1MiB boundary. On a modern disk, is the loss of
1007.0 KiB really important? That's less than a floppy disk.
When you copied, the size of partition 4 is way off. Should be around
10G by my calculation.
No swap partition? Personally, I think a /home partition is always
useful. Change the system, but not user data. But that's really a
different discussion.
I guess that the specific reply to the comment is that the GPT
specification has this partitioning scheme. It’s not required by the
combination of UEFI-GPT-GRUB. It’s a matter of a user being able to
distinguish between the partitions and where the grub image will be
installed.
I agree.
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