Thanks Gary and Pascal and all for your very informative inputs and support. now it works and my drive is bootable now.
however one thing i have notice which is also off the topic is that i can not boot my new GPT hard drive with supergrub CD. when i reaches where kernel loads it restart immediately. can you please throw some light on this too. otherwise drive is working perfectly. Thanks, yousuf On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote: > Gary Dale a écrit : > > On 30/06/15 02:17 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> > >>> What I would do is shrink partition 5 by 100M then create a new ef02 > >>> partition in the freed space. > >> > >> Why on earth would you want to do such a dangerous and useless thing ? > >> As I wrote in a previous message, there is plenty of free space on the > >> disk to create a new BIOS boot partition of suitable size. > > > > There is, but 2048 sectors is only 1M. > > As previously written, 1 MB is plenty enough for a BIOS boot partition. > It is not an EFI system partition nor /boot. It just contains GRUB's > core image for BIOS. The current size of this image is less than 50 kB > in the worst case, and I don't see it grow bigger than 1 MB any time > soon because it is also designed to fit in the 1 MB MBR gap for > MBR-style disks. GRUB's fancy and heavy stuff is kept out of the core > image, in /boot/grub or other places. > > Besides, as previously written, there is a 500 GB unallocated space at > the end of the 2 TB disk so there is really really no need to shrink > anything. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5593b518.5010...@plouf.fr.eu.org > >
