[SOLVED] Thinking of reorganising my systems

lucmove · 10-11-2019, 05:56 PM

[QUOTE=hazel;6036747], so this is my current setup:

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/dev/sda1       2048   2050047   2048000 1000M BIOS boot(just in case I ever want to use GRUB for booting)
/dev/sda2    2050048   2582527    532480  260M EFI System
/dev/sda3    2582528   3606527   1024000  500M Lenovo special boot

Did you reserve 1GB for BIOS boot? Is that right? Very wasteful!

hazel · 10-12-2019, 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by lucmove

Did you reserve 1GB for BIOS boot? Is that right? Very wasteful!

Ha Ha! I didn't reserve it, I repurposed it. The first three partitions were already there, but I reassigned the one I knew I didn't need. It was the Windows restore partition (WINRES) originally. Yes, it's big, but I've never used most of the empty space on my hard drive in any recent computer I've used. Whatever do people put there?

I currently have 9 partitions in use and between them they cover half the disk. The other half is just empty space.

colorpurple21859 · 10-13-2019, 09:44 AM

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Did you reserve 1GB for BIOS boot? Is that right? Very wasteful!

If you worried about wasting space, you don't need a bios-boot partition if you use lilo or syslinux on a gpt disk.

hazel · 10-13-2019, 09:49 AM

You don't need one if you use uefi either. But given that the partition existed, I made it a BIOS boot just in case I ever did need one. I probably never will, since I don't propose to go back to legacy boot and I hate GRUB anyway.

colorpurple21859 · 10-13-2019, 09:55 AM

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I hate GRUB anyway

I know you do from some of your previous posts, didn't know if you was aware of not needing a bios-grub on gpt using lilo.

hazel · 10-13-2019, 09:58 AM

LILO can fit entirely into the MBR of a DOS disk (or the dummy MBR of a GPT one) except for its map file. GRUB can't. And this is the point at issue for me: why did such a neat little bootloader get displaced by a big clumsy monster like GRUB?

fatmac · 10-14-2019, 04:23 AM

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.....but I've never used most of the empty space on my hard drive in any recent computer I've used. Whatever do people put there?

Same here, I just don't understand what people put on their disks these days - I'm using 64GB SSDs & 160GB HDDs in my computers presently - & I still have room after putting my music & videos on them....

rokytnji · 10-14-2019, 11:39 AM

Yeah, I agree. But we are all different is use cases.
Like me changing bios so I can run linux on this chromebook 16 gig ssd drive.
Or chrooting a linux install on the other chromebook. Because of broken write protect block.

1 gig used to be a lot in the old days. Not so much anymore.
Try running linux like I did once

https://forums.solydxk.com/viewtopic.php?t=1858

So imagine what one can do with 1 gig?

cynwulf · 10-15-2019, 04:50 AM

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Originally Posted by hazel

LILO can fit entirely into the MBR of a DOS disk (or the dummy MBR of a GPT one) except for its map file. GRUB can't. And this is the point at issue for me: why did such a neat little bootloader get displaced by a big clumsy monster like GRUB?

GRUB is a classic example of feature creep. Rather than trying to be an MBR bootloader, it evolved quickly into a complicated boot manager, which is almost like a miniature OS in itself and can read file systems (which lilo cannot). Many see this as some kind of progress - it really isn't, it's just wasteful, needless complexity in a bit of code which is really only supposed to bootstrap an OS (kernel). It grew out of the need of many migrants from Windows to Linux need to boot multiple OS on the same x86 PC, something which was always a secondary concern for projects like LILO or other operating systems such as Windows and the BSDs.

In other words, if you don't multi-boot, you don't need something as complex as GRUB.