You are not logged in.
- Topics: Active | Unanswered
#1 2025-08-15 19:30:52
- graysky
- Wiki Maintainer
- From: :wq
- Registered: 2008-12-01
- Posts: 10,731
- Website
Anyone with a grub bios install willing to post fdisk -l /dev/sda
I'd like to see the partition start/end sectors for a grub bios install (all I have are EFI systems). Anyone willing to post fdisk -l /dev/sda (or whatever the boot drive is) for me?
Offline
#2 2025-08-15 20:12:15
- close2zero
- Member
- From: Norway
- Registered: 2025-07-14
- Posts: 65
Re: Anyone with a grub bios install willing to post fdisk -l /dev/sda
I don't use grub. But I found this:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … 34-to-2047
Or is it the actual content of 34 to 2047 you are looking for?
Last edited by close2zero (2025-08-15 20:13:40)
while true; do mount /dev/close2zero /mnt/clarity; done
Offline
#3 2025-08-15 20:51:06
- seth
- Member
- From: Won't reply 2 private help req
- Registered: 2012-09-03
- Posts: 75,182
Re: Anyone with a grub bios install willing to post fdisk -l /dev/sda
fdisk -l will not list the master boot record.
It's gonna be 2048 on the vast majority of systems - sector 63 isn't used as partition start sector since ages and a terrible idea on SSDs because (like w/ theoretically sector 34) one logical sector will then span two physical sectors, which is bad for performance and life expectency.
This isn't related to BIOS/EFI or GPT/MBR
Offline