From: daniel47@eternal-september.org   
      
   On 5/01/2025 1:10 am, bad sector wrote:   
   >   
   > To boot the same GPT disk in either an EFI or Legacy BIOS machine I'd   
   > need both an EFI system partition which HAS to be the first one on the   
   > disk, as well as a BIOS-Boot partition.   
   >   
   > Q:  Does the BIOS-Boot partition also have to be #1?   
   >   
   > If it does, WHY? I then would have to swing the two partitions, one   
   > replacing the other as needed; otherwise I can have both set up and the   
   > disk will boot in either machine. My take is that when a Legacy BIOS   
   > machine cannot find the boot code in the disk root (mbr) then it looks   
   > for it in the BIOS-Boot partition, wherever that is, so long as it is   
   > accessible.   
   >   
   Thank you, bad sector, for asking this question. My fifteen year or so   
   old HP 6730b Laptop (Win 7 when I brought it, then I added various   
   versions of Linux to it) died about a fortnight ago (well, the computer   
   wanted to wipe out all signs of Win7 ... which seems a reasonable   
   action!!!).   
      
   I'm starting down the track to setting up this new (HP, again) desktop   
   to do what I want, so will be very interested in all the replies to your   
   post.   
      
   Again, thank you for asking. ;-)   
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   Daniel70   
      
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