Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition

2014-09-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 07 September 2014 14:25:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 07/09/2014 13:44, Mick wrote: > > On Saturday 06 Sep 2014 13:49:27 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 06/09/2014 05:02, Joseph wrote: > >>> I'm configuring MBR partition for older disk and need to know what code > >>> to enter for boot partit

Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition

2014-09-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 07/09/2014 13:44, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 06 Sep 2014 13:49:27 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 06/09/2014 05:02, Joseph wrote: >>> I'm configuring MBR partition for older disk and need to know what code >>> to enter for boot partition. My BIOS is not EFI type. >> >> There is no such thing as an MB

Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition

2014-09-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday 06 Sep 2014 13:49:27 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 06/09/2014 05:02, Joseph wrote: > > I'm configuring MBR partition for older disk and need to know what code > > to enter for boot partition. My BIOS is not EFI type. > > There is no such thing as an MBR partition. Please clarify. > > The

Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition

2014-09-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday 06 Sep 2014 15:42:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2014 04:44:56 -0600, Joseph wrote: > > I'll continue on Monday and let you know. If it will not boot with > > sector starting at 2048, I will re-partition /boot sda1 to start at 63. > > Don't even think about aligning partition

Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition

2014-09-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 6 Sep 2014 04:44:56 -0600, Joseph wrote: > I'll continue on Monday and let you know. If it will not boot with > sector starting at 2048, I will re-partition /boot sda1 to start at 63. Don't even think about aligning partitions like that on an SSD. -- Neil Bothwick No, you *can't* cal

Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition

2014-09-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/09/2014 05:02, Joseph wrote: > I'm configuring MBR partition for older disk and need to know what code > to enter for boot partition. My BIOS is not EFI type. > There is no such thing as an MBR partition. Please clarify. The MBR is the first sector of the disk. It simply exists and you u

Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition

2014-09-06 Thread Joseph
On 09/06/14 07:15, Kerin Millar wrote: On 06/09/2014 04:10, Joseph wrote: On 09/05/14 21:02, Joseph wrote: I'm configuring MBR partition for older disk and need to know what code to enter for boot partition. My BIOS is not EFI type. Not that it particularly matters but a partition dedicated t

Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition

2014-09-05 Thread Kerin Millar
On 06/09/2014 04:10, Joseph wrote: On 09/05/14 21:02, Joseph wrote: I'm configuring MBR partition for older disk and need to know what code to enter for boot partition. My BIOS is not EFI type. Not that it particularly matters but a partition dedicated to /boot contains a Linux filesystem and

Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition

2014-09-05 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 6 September 2014 05:10:59 CEST, Joseph wrote: >On 09/05/14 21:02, Joseph wrote: >>I'm configuring MBR partition for older disk and need to know what >code to enter for boot partition. >>My BIOS is not EFI type. > >My current configuration: >fdisk -l /dev/sda > >Disk /dev/sda: 447.1 GiB, 4801039

Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition

2014-09-05 Thread Joseph
On 09/05/14 21:02, Joseph wrote: I'm configuring MBR partition for older disk and need to know what code to enter for boot partition. My BIOS is not EFI type. My current configuration: fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 447.1 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512