installation issue 1

[Ian Malone]

On 2 March 2013 22:00, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
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> Am 02.03.2013 22:57, schrieb Patrick Dupre:


> it gives you enough room for GRUB2
> any modern partitioning tool starts the first partition at 2048
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>> fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>> /dev/sdb1              63    24981074    12490506    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>> probably does not give me enough room to fit properly a MBR
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> is a partition scheme created many years go
>

I've still got some of these from dual boot installs transferred
between discs (have experienced problems getting Windows to boot after
changing the first sector to something sane in the past). I assume at
some future point UEFI Grub is going to have problems with this, but
still using BIOS for the moment.

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