<div dir="ltr"><div>I want to dual-boot Ubuntu 14.04 and (a derivative of) OpenSuSE. Is this partition scheme ok?<br><br><pre><code>thufir@doge:~$
thufir@doge:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA ST500DM002-1BD14 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 105GB 105GB primary ext4 boot
2 105GB 498GB 393GB primary ext4
3 498GB 500GB 2348MB primary linux-swap(v1)
thufir@doge:~$
thufir@doge:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x1f3b4b3e
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 204802047 204800000 97.7G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 204802048 972187647 767385600 365.9G 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 972187648 976773119 4585472 2.2G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
thufir@doge:~$ <br><br><br></code></pre><pre><code>Is it a problem that sda1 is marked as a boot partition? Isn't that what I want?<br><br></code></pre><pre><code>Do I also want to mark sda2 as a boot partition? Assuming standard OpenSuSE install.</code><br></pre></div>see also:<br><div><br><a href="http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/182966/">http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/182966/</a><br><br><br><br><div>thanks,<br><br></div>Thufir<br></div></div>