On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Walter Cazzola <cazzola@di.unimi.it> wrote:
> Hi,
> thanks all for the help at end I missed to create a bootbios partion of 2MiB
> once I added that the system booted. The strange point is that I didn't find
> it explained in any tutorial but thanks to your advice I noticed that entry
> in the filesystem menu.

This is unexpected because BIOSBoot only exists on GPT. But Windows
requires MBR on BIOS (legacy) systems, and GPT on UEFI systems. It's
not possible to get it to do anything different. So if the
installation is GPT, that suggests UEFI installation, and there should
be an EFI System partition rather than BIOSBoot.

The fact there is an extended partition, and boot flags in earlier
reports, shows this is an MBR partitioned drive. Those things don't
exist with GPT drives.

I don't know what to say, this is my current configuration:

 /dev/sda1              63      80324      80262  39.2M de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2  *        81920   25710591   25628672  12.2G 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda3        25710592  201408511  175697920  83.8G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4       201408512 1953523711 1752115200 835.5G  5 Extended
/dev/sda5       201410560  201414655       4096     2M 83 Linux
/dev/sda6       201416704  202883071    1466368   716M 83 Linux
/dev/sda7       202885120  307742719  104857600    50G 83 Linux
/dev/sda8       307744768  358076415   50331648    24G 82 Linux swap / Sola
/dev/sda9       358078464  372758527   14680064     7G 83 Linux
/dev/sda10      372760576  383246335   10485760     5G 83 Linux
/dev/sda11      383248384  393734143   10485760     5G 83 Linux
/dev/sda12      393736192  396881919    3145728   1.5G  6 FAT16
/dev/sda13      396883968 1953523711 1556639744 742.3G 83 Linux

and for now the system boots correctly

Walter
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