On 2 March 2013 22:00, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Am 02.03.2013 22:57, schrieb Patrick Dupre: > it gives you enough room for GRUB2 > any modern partitioning tool starts the first partition at 2048 > >> fdisk -l /dev/sdb >> /dev/sdb1 63 24981074 12490506 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT >> probably does not give me enough room to fit properly a MBR > > is a partition scheme created many years go > I've still got some of these from dual boot installs transferred between discs (have experienced problems getting Windows to boot after changing the first sector to something sane in the past). I assume at some future point UEFI Grub is going to have problems with this, but still using BIOS for the moment. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org