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restive kernel Oct 18, 2024, 4:35 PM

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I have to make a BIOS boot partition

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@vestal frost

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There we go

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Should I delete the EFI System or keep it??

vestal frost Oct 18, 2024, 4:38 PM

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Partitioning#BIOS/GPT_layout_example

If you click on the BIOS boot partition part from that page it will also show you the commands to create it. Create the 3 partitions that they recommend here, nothing more nothing less

restive kernel Oct 18, 2024, 4:41 PM

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I’ll put that one gig in linux filesystem

vestal frost Oct 18, 2024, 4:44 PM

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restive kernel I’ll put that one gig in linux filesystem

It needs 1MiB

restive kernel Oct 18, 2024, 4:45 PM

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vestal frost It needs 1MiB

This is what I have put

vestal frost Oct 18, 2024, 4:45 PM

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They also gave you an order on the site that lets you expand your / partition, but you won't be able to do that

restive kernel Oct 18, 2024, 4:47 PM

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I could repartition it again

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But I think this is as good as I could come up with without tampering with the rest of the storage

vestal frost Oct 18, 2024, 4:48 PM

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You also didn't click on the link I told you to, so what you did won't work

restive kernel Oct 18, 2024, 4:48 PM

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You mean this? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Partitioning#BIOS/GPT_layout_example

Partitioning

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I did but I had extra storage

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So I had to do something about it

vestal frost Oct 18, 2024, 4:50 PM

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oh, why not just remove that partition so you only have 3 partitions in the order that the wiki shows?

restive kernel Oct 18, 2024, 4:51 PM

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Removed the 1gig partition

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Though I want to make them in order like 1,2,3

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It’s ok with me to make it out of order

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Made the order better now

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Dumb question

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Should I format the bios boot partition?

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Formatted root and swap so far

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Just needed to check if boot is needed to be formatted or not

vestal frost Oct 18, 2024, 5:14 PM

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restive kernel Should I format the bios boot partition?

It's not a dumb question actually 🙂 It's a smart question. No need to format it

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If you're doing EFI the boot partition would be formatted, so it could be confusing

restive kernel Oct 18, 2024, 5:14 PM

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ok just so you know

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I switched to UEFI

vestal frost Oct 18, 2024, 5:15 PM

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Welp, I'm out

restive kernel Oct 18, 2024, 5:15 PM

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wait actually it's BIOS for some reason

restive kernel Oct 18, 2024, 5:15 PM

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vestal frost Welp, I'm out

gn

austere gale Oct 18, 2024, 5:36 PM

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restive kernel gn

I think they were absolving themselves of providing further assistance. Nobody wants to have the scope of their assistance changed on the fly, you opened the thread starting you needed a BIOS boot partition, then after much assistance had been provided, you declared that you switched to UEFi.

If the hardware supports it, you should be using uefi anyway. It's been 12 years since it released, it's time to modernize.

restive kernel Oct 18, 2024, 5:36 PM

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Yeah I understand

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I made it BIOS and it wasn’t working for one reason or another

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