Re: Installer - add BIOS boot partition?
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 02:31:22PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote:
> That worked great, thanks. Though it seems the '1.0MB' free before my
> first partition wasn't big enough (or not aligned right?) so I had to
> start from scratch.
>
> Incidentally, could/should I have made that RAID1? I created bios
> partitions on both my disks, and have grub-install-ed to both. The
> partitions do seem to be identical.
It might be possible to make it raid 1, although if you tell grub
to install to both of them, that should work fine, and in fact you
probably need that anyhow to get the bootstrap code into the MBR sector
on both disks. I think you are fine the way it is. That partition is
essentially an extension of the MBR sector for grub code so being per
disk makes sense.
And yes the partition tool won't let you create partitions that don't
start on a 1MB alignment, so even though there was enough room for a
partition there (of almost 1MB) it won't let you. Not that loosing 1MB
is a big deal. Having to start over probably wasn't that big a deal
either in this case.
--
Len Sorensen
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