Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > 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.
Thanks, does the 1mb partition have to have anything in it? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com