On 05. sep. 2014 04:44, Daniel Frey wrote:
It is possible to boot in EFI mode off of a USB, as I used a Mint ISO
to boot from in EFI mode. I would presume the USB needs to have the
FAT partition that EFI requires. Dan
Sounds good. Having /boot on a stick makes it easy to have whatever I
might
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a new SSD 480GB drive and I'm trying to partition it. It was some
time before I went through this so I found this information:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD
But they omitted the Boot partition.
Device
Hi,
At Wed, 3 Sep 2014 22:30:32 -0600, Joseph wrote:
But they omitted the Boot partition.
Device Start End Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 6143 2M BIOS boot partition
/dev/sda2 6144 4200447 2G Linux swap
/dev/sda3 4200448
On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 22:30:32 -0600, Joseph wrote:
I have a new SSD 480GB drive and I'm trying to partition it. It was
some time before I went through this so I found this information:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD
But they omitted the Boot partition.
Device Start End
On Thursday, September 04, 2014 09:01:41 AM Christian Kruse wrote:
Hi,
At Wed, 3 Sep 2014 22:30:32 -0600, Joseph wrote:
But they omitted the Boot partition.
Device Start End Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 6143 2M BIOS boot partition
/dev/sda2
On 09/04/14 09:53, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a new SSD 480GB drive and I'm trying to partition it. It was some
time before I went through this so I found this information:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD
But they omitted
On 09/04/14 08:25, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 22:30:32 -0600, Joseph wrote:
I have a new SSD 480GB drive and I'm trying to partition it. It was
some time before I went through this so I found this information:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD
But they omitted the Boot partition.
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 07:05:28 -0600, Joseph wrote:
Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk
On 09/04/14 14:29, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 07:05:28 -0600, Joseph wrote:
Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096
On 4 September 2014 15:54:17 CEST, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/04/14 14:29, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 07:05:28 -0600, Joseph wrote:
Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical):
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
My BIOS boot partition is 1MB not 1GB. My /boot partition is 1GB to allow
room for a couple of System Rescue CD ISO images.
There are a few types of boot partitions these days.
One is used when booting GPT from legacy
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
When booting from EFI you need a GPT boot partition (FAT - ugh) that
actually contains the image that gets booted, so it needs to have room
for at least a couple of kernels/initramfs - so that will be larger.
If you're
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 07:54:17 -0600, Joseph wrote:
No, it's type is BIOS boot partition, it's a completely different
type of partition and not used by your Linux installation at all, it's
purely there for the BIOS.
Thank you for explanation.
Is your /home on root partition? I've notice
On 04. sep. 2014 16:52, Tom H wrote:
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
When booting from EFI you need a GPT boot partition (FAT - ugh) that
actually contains the image that gets booted, so it needs to have room
for at least a couple of kernels/initramfs - so
On 04/09/2014 22:05, Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
On 04. sep. 2014 16:52, Tom H wrote:
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
When booting from EFI you need a GPT boot partition (FAT - ugh) that
actually contains the image that gets booted, so it needs to have room
On 09/04/2014 01:05 PM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
On 04. sep. 2014 16:52, Tom H wrote:
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
When booting from EFI you need a GPT boot partition (FAT - ugh) that
actually contains the image that gets booted, so it needs to have room
I have a new SSD 480GB drive and I'm trying to partition it. It was some time
before I went through this so I found this information:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD
But they omitted the Boot partition.
Device Start End Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 6143
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