Translations:Handbook:AMD64/Blocks/Disks/170/en

First, create a small partition which will be mounted as /boot. Type to create a new partition, followed by  for a primary partition and  to select the first primary partition. When prompted for the first sector, make sure it starts from 2048 (which may be needed for the boot loader) and hit. When prompted for the last sector, type +256M to create a partition 256 Mbyte in size: