Installation guide

To edit a partition, select the Edit button or double-click on the existing partition.

Note

If the partition already exists on your disk, you can only change the partition's

mount point. To make any other changes, you must delete the partition and recre-

ate it.

18.7. Deleting a Partition

To delete a partition, highlight it in the Partitions section and click the Delete button. Confirm

the deletion when prompted.

For further installation instructions for x86, AMD64, and Intel® 64 systems, skip to Section 19,

“x86, AMD64, and Intel 64 Boot Loader Configuration”.

For further installation instructions for Itanium systems, skip to Section 20, “Network Configura-

tion”.

19. x86, AMD64, and Intel® 64 Boot Loader

Configuration

To boot the system without boot media, you usually need to install a boot loader. A boot loader

is the first software program that runs when a computer starts. It is responsible for loading and

transferring control to the operating system kernel software. The kernel, in turn, initializes the

rest of the operating system.

GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader), which is installed by default, is a very powerful boot loader.

GRUB can load a variety of free operating systems, as well as proprietary operating systems

with chain-loading (the mechanism for loading unsupported operating systems, such as DOS or

Windows, by loading another boot loader).

18.7. Deleting a Partition