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Re: GPT on BIOS system partitions scheme





> Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
This is not necessary. Menu X, D will allow you to change this to 1.
The 2048 value is just wasteful (an overly safe default). Whether you
care about losing that 2MB is your call...

True I can start at 8, not a big deal.
 

> Total free space is 1058782 sectors (517.0 MiB)
>
> Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
>    1            2048          411647   200.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System
>    2          675840          677887   1024.0 KiB  EF02  BIOS boot
>    3          942080         3039231   1024.0 MiB  0700  Linux/Windows
>    4         3303424      1464884942   696.9 GiB   8E00  Linux LVM
Looks great. Do you really need partition 1? If it's a BIOS system, the
first partition has no purpose.

ESP is not needed on this system but if I want to boot this disk from another PC with EFI I don't want to re-do the whole partition table. Again 200MB is not a big deal.


Your partitioning is fine. It's not optimal, but it will work as it
should. Just remember to install grub2 on the whole disk (/dev/sda),
not in a partition.

Thanks for the confirmation.

From what I understand EF02 BIOS boot partition holds the GRUB stage 2 files, right?

Also Sqeeze only installs GRUB legacy by default, is there a way to install GRUB2 during the install?
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Kind regards,
Yudi


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