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#1 2009-11-05 15:51:59

pyther
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Quick Post Asus EEEPC

Disclaimer: I can only verify this works with the Asus EEEPC 1000HE.

Well my eee came with Windows and of course I wasted no time blowing away the partitions and installing Arch. While browsing the some eeepc stuff I came across the gentoo wiki for the eee 1000HE.

It said:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd80c1c68

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       10659    85618386    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           10660       18814    65505037+   5  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           18815       19452     5124735   1c  Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda4           19453       19457       40162+  ef  EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

The first two are respectively system and data, the third partition is a hidden partition used for system restores, and the last partition is a 50MB partition that the Eeepc BIOS uses to store some data to abreviate the POST of your netbook.

I whole-heartedly recommend keeping the fourth partition whatever you do. Those 50 megabytes saves about ~7 seconds of boot time. Provided you're using the HDD that comes with your 1000he, all that needs to be done in order to keep the quick post working after you wipe is to leave partition 4 alone.

If you delete the EFI partition by mistake, you can restore Boot Booster by creating a 50MB primary partition at the end of your hard drive. Label it as EFI (0xef) from within fdisk. The contents of the partition are not important as it is only a caching area for the BIOS.

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Asus_Eee … Quick_Post

I backed up my data and loaded gparted. I went to the last partition on my drive told it to resize it leaving 50MB at the end. Then I loaded up fdisk, created a new partition and set the type to EFI.

To my surprise my eee skipped the bios screen and went straight to the bootloader!


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