Installation guide

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 recreate it.

4 .19.7. Delet ing a Part it ion

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 4.20,

“ x86, AMD 64, and Intel® 64 Boot Loader Configuration” .

For further installation instructions for Itanium systems, skip to Section 4.21, “Network

Configuration” .

4.20. x86, AMD64, and Int el® 64 Boot Loader Configurat ion

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 D OS or

Windows, by loading another boot loader).

⁠Chapt er 4 . Inst alling on Int el® and AMD Syst ems