Le 05/12/2017 à 03:33, Felix Miata a écrit :
Pascal Hambourg composed on 2017-12-05 00:41 (UTC+0100):
You're the only one bringing additional confusion.
Nobody but you talked about doing such a stupid thing as removing a type
ee partition. Dan and I only talked about removing the BIOS boot
partition sda1.
In https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/12/msg00089.html
Following is the entirety of what Dan wrote:
"Then, to proceed, remove /dev/sda1 partition followed by grub-install?"
Nothing in that post makes it unambiguous that an MBR (MSDOS) partitioned disk
was not the subject of discussion.
In the context of a GPT partitioned disk, anyone else understands
without any doubt that /dev/sda1 refers to the partition #1 defined in
the GPT partition table, not in the protective MBR.
sda1 cannot be a type ee partition. Type ee can exist only in the MBR,
and real partitions sda1, sda2... exist in the GPT table.
The post Dan's quote came from, standing alone, as a whole, was confusion.
Absent clear indication of GPT context,
Please read again the initial post. It contains absolutely clear
indication that the disk has a GPT label.
the term "BIOS boot partition" is ambiguous.
No it is not. It has a perfecly clear definition, and even an entry in
Wikipedia : <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS_boot_partition>
It could easily enough be construed as the 16 bytes at LBA 0 address
01BEh, which in BIOS/MSDOS partitioning context is sda1.
There is no such "BIOS boot" partition type defined in DOS/MBR partition
types.