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reacts to commands. The first reaction to swapping should be to check for
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an unreasonable command such as trying to edit a five gigabyte file. If
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swapping becomes a normal occurrence, the best solution is to purchase more
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- RAM for your system.</para> </sect3>
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+ RAM for your system.</para>
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+ </sect3>
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+ <sect3>
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+ <title>The Grub Bios Partition</title>
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+
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+ <para>If the <emphasis>boot disk</emphasis> has been partitioned with a
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+ GUID Partition Table (GPT), then a small, typically 1 MB, partition must be
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+ created if it does not already exist. This partition is not formatted, but
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+ must be available for GRUB to to use during installation of the boot
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+ loader. This partition will normally be labeled 'BIOS Boot' if using
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+ <command>fdisk</command> or have a code of <emphasis>EF02</emphasis> if
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+ using <command>gdisk</command>.</para>
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+
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+ <note><para>The Grub Bios partition must be on the drive that the BIOS
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+ uses to boot the system. This is not necessarily the same drive where the
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+ LFS root partition is located. Disks on a system may use different
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+ partition table types. The requirment for this partition depends
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+ only on the partition table type of the boot disk.</para></note>
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+ </sect3>
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<sect3>
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<title>Convenience Partitions</title>
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Bruce Dubbs