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BIOS Boot partition


Does this partition (supposedly required by GPT) have to be in i.e. next to disk root?

I put mine higher up and I don't think it's being used but have no boot issues either

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Device          Start        End   Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1        2048  209717247 209715200  100G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda2   209717248  419432447 209715200  100G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3   419432448  629147647 209715200  100G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda4   629147648  838862847 209715200  100G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda5   838862848 1048578047 209715200  100G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda6  1048578048 1258293247 209715200  100G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda7  1258293248 1468008447 209715200  100G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda8  1468008448 1677723647 209715200  100G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda9  1677723648 1887438847 209715200  100G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda10 1887438848 1889535999   2097152    1G BIOS boot
/dev/sda11 1889536000 1897924607   8388608    4G Linux swap
/dev/sda12 1897924608 1906313215   8388608    4G Linux swap
/dev/sda13 1906313216 1914701823   8388608    4G Linux swap
/dev/sda14 1914701824 1923090431   8388608    4G Linux swap
/dev/sda15 1923090432 1931479039   8388608    4G Linux swap
/dev/sda16 1931479040 1939867647   8388608    4G Linux swap
/dev/sda17 1939867648 1948256255   8388608    4G Linux swap


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Re: BIOS Boot partition

Reply #1 –
if by this partition!! you mean "boot partition",
that partition is absolutely required.
the position is not of much importance as long as it is on first 2TB of disk

you might want to read more about it

Re: BIOS Boot partition

Reply #2 –
>Does this partition (supposedly required by GPT) have to be in i.e. next to disk root?

No, I have ignored the BIOS boot partition on two UEFI systems and nothing happened, booted fine all the time.

Re: BIOS Boot partition

Reply #3 –
Quote from: suren – on
if by this partition!! you mean "boot partition",
that partition is absolutely required.
the position is not of much importance as long as it is on first 2TB of disk

you might want to read more about it

I just posted another long reply but it's gone without a trace...?

OK, that 2tb is a relief, not likely to become a problem for a while :-)

"For parted set/activate the flag bios_grub on the partition"

I use fdisk, I would presume that grub installers do this flag thing by themselves.


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Re: BIOS Boot partition

Reply #4 –
Quote from: Lancia – on
>Does this partition (supposedly required by GPT) have to be in i.e. next to disk root?

No, I have ignored the BIOS boot partition on two UEFI systems and nothing happened, booted fine all the time.


bios boot partition is for bios boot not for uefi.  uefi is for uefi boot partition
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