Include:Parted BIOS with MBR mode with DOS disklabel
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We'll be partitioning the storage device using parted utility to have a /boot partition for use with the Syslinux bootloader. Syslinux is meant for use with legacy BIOS and an MSDOS MBR partition table. The root partition in this example takes up the entire remaining space. This can be changed suitably.
Syslinux does support GPT partition tables but GRUB2 is the better option for UEFI (UEFI is possible only with GPT).
+---------------------------+------------------------+-----------------------+ | Partition name | Partition purpose | Filesystem type | +---------------------------+------------------------+-----------------------+ | /dev/sda1 | Boot partition | ext4 | | /dev/sda2 | Root partition | ext4 | +---------------------------+------------------------+-----------------------+
Warning: This will delete an existing partition table and make your data very hard to recover. If you want to dual boot, stop here and ask an expert.
To create a Boot partition of approximately 100MB to boot from,
# parted -a optimal (parted) mklabel msdos (parted) mkpart primary ext4 0% 100M (parted) set 1 boot on (parted) mkpart primary ext4 100M 100%
To view your partition table, type print while still in parted. Your results should look something like this:
(parted) print Model: ATA TOSHIBA ******** (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 99.6MB 98.6MB primary ext4 boot 2 99.6MB 1000GB 1000GB primary ext4