From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2023-04-03 12:52, bad sector wrote:   
   > On 3/22/23 07:42, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2023-03-22 12:01, bad sector wrote:   
   >>> On 3/21/23 23:55, Malcolm wrote:   
   >>>> On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 21:23:40 -0400   
   >>>> bad sector  wrote:   
   >>>>    
   >>>>   
   >>>>> But none of this is getting me any closer to getting a handle on the   
   >>>>> difference between 1 & 3 in the OP, or on the need to use the system   
   >>>>> partition as a "Boot Partition" when there already is a definitive   
   >>>>> "BIOS Boot" partition. I figure a little more verbose help bubbles on   
   >>>>> that dialog would be useful.   
   >>>> Hi   
   >>>> BIOS Boot (type pmbr_boot) is need when using Legacy Boot and a gpt   
   >>>> disk.   
   >>>   
   >>> I do have a GPT disk and having no need for EFI I do use legacy boot   
   >>   
   >> Yes, you do need it.   
   >   
   > The BIOS-Boot yes, not that other horror   
      
   Man, it doesn't harm to have an empty 500 MB partition there.   
      
   >   
   >> You actually need the "Bios Boot" partition, usually of 8 MiB size,   
   >> because you are using legacy boot.   
   >   
   > While in the disk root world, would Truncated-MBR not be a much better   
   > name for Protected-MBR? In fact Truncated-Root-Sector would be even   
   > better seeing that MBR doesn't say much but Root-Sector does.   
      
   It is not truncated. You are free to use it fully, but you can cause   
   disasters.   
      
   It is not protected-mbr, but protective-mbr.   
      
   >   
   >>   
   >> And YaST will also insist, with good reasons, despite your   
   >> protestations, that you need an ESP partition, which you call EFI   
   >> partition (it is "EFI system partition, that is, ESP). Just let YaST   
   >> create it. It is quite small, and if you actually need it next decade   
   >> and don't have it, you will grind your teeth.   
   >   
   > Next decade I might well be grinding and not just my teeth anyway :-)   
   >   
   > I use fdisk of gfdisk or whatever to partition my disks because I want   
   > partitions to be exactly sized with identical block numbers so that (if   
   > needed) one system can be just dd'd to another partition. Gui   
   > partitioners have a very long way to go to get me aboard especially if   
   > their *microcancer-coefficient* leans heavily toward the 'virtualise   
   > everything and keep the user in the mushromm factory by keeping him in   
   > the dark and feeding him manure'.   
      
   That doesn't contradict what I said in the least.   
      
      
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