Handbook Talk:AMD64/Installation/Disks

To get my bios to recognize my GPT, I had to set the protective MBR flag to "on" in parted, thusly:

disk_set pmbr_boot on

Without this flag set, GRUB wasn't even recognized. This may help some people, and may be a good tidbit/candidate for including in the handbook!

Paragraphs of "Alternative: Using fdisk to partition the disk" are not clears
I think we are using a MBR disk label. True?

In "Alternative: Using fdisk to partition the disk" it say "Mark the partition for EFI purposes:". What means this. It suppose we are in a BIOS boot, not EFI boot.

The command box say "Changed system type of partition 1 to 4 (BIOS boot)". The type of partition for code 4 is "FAT16 <32M" on fdisk.

In the next command box /dev/sda1 is changed and now show "EFI (FAT-12/16/32)"

Are these some mistakes? Quilosaq (talk) 00:16, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

The paragraph of "Introduction to block devices" is confusing for newbies. Why is not there a step by step guide what to do to get partitioned disk when using MBR and an another guide when using EFI?

It is not clear what to do to get a filesystem on BIOS boot partition? Which filesystem should there created out there? --Best, Pál (talk) 11:18, 11 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Hi Pál,


 * I see your dilemma and concur a change needs to be made defining BIOS and EFI disk partitioning. I'll work on making the changes a bit later today. --Maffblaster (talk) 13:01, 7 May 2016 (UTC)