On Wed, 20 May 2015 06:51:53 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > You should really consider moving to GRUB2 though. I don't know about > > legacy GRUB, but GRUB2 can handle your boot partition being on btrfs. > > I still left space on my drives for a boot partition anyway, since it > > will be needed when I move to EFI. > > How did you makr the boot partition, or is it just linux? Did you use > gpt or mbr? I am about to convert to ssd, and I may as well do it in > such a way that future mbs will work much easier.
If you want t be able to use UEFI, you need to use GPT. UEFI needs a FAT partition at the start of the drive, type FE00, but booting a GPT disk with MBR requires a small BIOS boot partition, type EF02, at the start of the drive (mine is 1MB). For ease of switching to UEFI later, I'd do sda1 1MB BIOS boot, type EF00 sda2 /boot, type 8300 everything else. You can make sda2 ext2, then, when it is time to switch, simply backup the contents of /boot, replace sda1 and sda2 with a single EF00 partition, formatted with FAT, and copy the contents of /boot back. -- Neil Bothwick How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?
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