On Saturday 27 Aug 2016 10:19:48 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 26 Aug 2016 12:33:47 Mick wrote: > > On Friday 26 Aug 2016 09:32:25 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > In my search for a suitable boot method, I'm trying Mike G's > > > systemd-boot ebuild. I've installed it with no problem, and now I reach > > > the heart-in-mouth stage of actually replacing gummiboot with it. But > > > first, the backup, including dd of what used to be called the MBR (what > > > is it now?). > > > > > > # parted -l > > > Model: Unknown (unknown) > > > Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 256GB > > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > > > Partition Table: gpt > > > Disk Flags: > > > > > > Number Start End Size File system Name Flags > > > > > > 1 1049kB 3146kB 2097kB uefi bios_grub > > > 2 3146kB 144MB 141MB fat32 boot boot, esp > > > 3 144MB 4504MB 4360MB linux-swap(v1) swap > > > 4 4504MB 15.0GB 10.5GB ext4 rescuesys > > > 5 15.0GB 32.2GB 17.2GB ext4 gentoo > > > 6 32.2GB 36.5GB 4295MB ext4 var > > > 7 36.5GB 45.1GB 8590MB ext4 home > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > That start block of the uefi partition looks odd to me. > > > > The 'Name' of the 1st partition is the label you have provided when you > > created it. It is NOT the type of the partition, which is shown under the > > 'Flags' column as 'bios_grub'. > > Yes, I know that of course. I called the first partition "uefi" because > that's what the wiki used, and nothing more suitable suggested itself. > > > The 1st partition was created to accommodate Grub's boot code. > > Now that I didn't know. Well, I was hazy about it anyway. > > > It starts on the first cylinder (change the units in parted to cyl and > > you'll see it starts at '0 cyl') and has no fs on it. > > Indeed, except that parted doesn't want to use cylinders in its list output.
Run parted: parted /dev/sda then set the units e.g. to "MiB", or sectors "s", or cylinders "cyl": (parted) unit MiB (parted) p to see the result. Then q to quit without changing the table. -- Regards, Mick
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